Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.71

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sacrifice, so may I as the fruit of it become the good daughter, not born of mother’s womb, of a pious man.” As soon as she had spoken thus, she went into the glowing fire, and from the sky there fell around a heavenly rain of flowers. And she was born here as the daughter of King Janaka (as Sītā from the furrow).”