Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.398

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² That is, 128,600 human years (see Manu, i, 65 ff.; Mārk.-Pur., xlvi; Vishṇupur., i, 3, etc.). Naturally with the heavenly sounds he did not notice the time going by, any more than, in Pauli’s *Schimpf und Ernst*, the Monk of Heisterbach (so well known especially through Wolfgang Müller’s poem) amid the sweet notes of the small bird—a motive which has a vast number of parallels. Thus the king Raivata with his daughter listens to the song of the Gandharvas in praise of Brahma; an endless time goes by in this, but seems to him like an instant, and when he gets back he finds everything on earth changed. Wilson’s Vishṇupurāṇa, vol. iii, pp. 249 ff.