Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.129

v1.c6.129

² The Christian Fathers of the Church of the first centuries disputed among themselves whether the soul had existed from all time (Pre-existants), or whether God made it at the begetting (Creationists), or whether it came from the father, as one light is lit at another (Traducianists). Among the Indians neither the second nor the third of these doctrines was able to emerge. And yet they often show this very Traducianist comparison. Thus Kālidāsa says in Raghuv., v, 37 : “ It was the same mighty form (Aja’s as his father Raghu’s), the same natural majesty ; the boy differed not from his cause, like a light that has been lit at the light.” Of course that only refers to the origin of the body. Cp. MBh., xii, 210.26.