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# Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.65

Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.65

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### [v1.c5.65](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.65)

The good daughter whom we have just seen in C̣armishthā we find also elsewhere. It is now the turn of a Brahman, with whom the five Pāṇdava youths are living, to offer himself to an evil Rākshasa. The latter must be given every day a cartload of rice to eat, the two oxen drawing it, and the man driving them. After the wife has offered to die for the Brahman, it goes on (i, 159) :—

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