Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.148

v1.c6.148

So, too, calls out Bharadvāja from his tortured soul when his only son is slain: “Happy indeed are the men to whom no son is born, who go their way at their pleasure, without knowing the sorrow for a child” (iii, 137.16). This, however, is but one note from that song which wails and triumphs through the whole post-Vedic literature : “ He only is happy that calls nought his own.” 1