Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.132

v1.c6.132

² According to Rām., i, 61.19 the father loves the eldest, the mother the youngest son, which agrees with Jāt., v, p. 327 ff. Of the great love of the Hindus for their children we have very plentiful evidence. Here we give one or two cases only: A. W. Stratton, *Letters from India*, Lond., 1908, p. 99, to be compared with Çrīvara's Kathākautukam ed. R. Schmidt, iv, 86; Fuller, *Studies of Indian Life*, etc., 162; Dubois-Beauchamp, 307 f. (but according to the last passage only a foolish fondness, which is very ill requited by the children, which statement, if made universally, seems wholly groundless).