Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.113

v1.c6.113

² “So among the hill tribes of Northern Aracan sexual intercourse before marriage is unrestricted, ‘and it is considered rather a good thing,’ we are told, ‘to marry a girl in the family-way, even though by another man.’” Hartland, i, 312. So also among the Wakamba (Hartland, ii, 196). Thus it is natural that it is the very girl who has already given birth who among several peoples is more sought after in the marriage market than her sister, who has not been blessed with