Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.124

v1.c6.124

to the accus. garbham, but there is very much to be said against this]. Why, in that very belly where food and drink, and the solid dishes that have been eaten are dissolved by the digestion, is not the fruit of the body dissolved just like the nourishment taken? [Cp. xii, 253.11; Mārk.-Pur., x, 5; Chavannes, *Cinq cents contes*, etc., iii, p. 124.] The course of the urine and fæces in the body has been laid down by our very nature; none here is a free agent, whether he wishes to withhold or to discharge. Sometimes also the fruits of the body come out of the belly before their time, being so born, and other times likewise they fall to destruction when they have to come into the world [or agame na written separately: “ others on the contrary do not thus fall to destruction at their coming into the world,” that is, are happily born]”. All connected with the origin of life is therefore a secret, throned in the darkness of nature. None has the power here to arrange things as he might wish them.