Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.102.3

v1.c6.102.3

Hartland, ii, 141; Elsie Clews Parsons, *The Old-Fashioned Woman*, p. 87; Müller-Lyer, *Phasen der Liebe*, p. 22 f.). And from the woman, who is almost everywhere in the world unclean and a bringer of destruction, and her husband, set into danger by her, spirits and evil It is to this view that a good proportion of the twelve kinds of sons enumerated in the law books owes its being. They are also named in the Mahābh., i, 120.32-34, and the account given here, too, has a singularly mild tone towards the "pretty sins" of the woman, and differs considerably from the account in the law writings. As bandhudāyada, that is, as sons who are kinsmen (belong to the family) and are entitled to inherit, are named: 1st, svayamjāta (one begotten by the husband himself, aurasa); 2nd, praṇīta (brought by the wife to the husband, and, as the commentary declares in agreement with çl. 35-36, begotten by the free grace of a better man); 3rd, parikrīta (bought, according to Nil. begotten with the wife by another, who has been paid for the seed; which in view of i, 105.2 is certainly right); 4th, paunarbhava (the son of a re-married woman)¹; 5th, kānīna (unmarried woman's child); 6th,