Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.44

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¹ In the body of the wedded and the unwedded woman alike there dwells, too, Çrī, the goddess of happiness and beauty (Viṣṇu, xcix, 14), and girls and women also turn aside the “ evil eye ” (dṛṣṭi-parihāra). Cf. Edgar Thurston, *Omens and Superstitions of Southern India* (1912), pp. 15-17, 23, 118. To see women is lucky according to MBh., ix, 56, 24 f.