Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.389

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and then naturally come forward to claim the rent of love: they live on their wives. Baudhāyana, ii, 2, 4.3; Manu, viii, 362; Yājñavalkya, ii, 48. Cp. Kauṭilya (transl.), 252.12 ff.; 196.7 ff. They are thus like the men of so many peoples, who are overjoyed when a man flirts with their wives, and they can thereby get something out of him. Many examples, for instance, in Finck, passim, and Hartland, especially ii, 120, 127, 129, 203, 205, 208, 215 ff. Cp. Anthropos, i, p. 935; iv, 619.