Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.166

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¹ So too, for instance, Nārada, xii, 59 declares : “ The fruit of the field cannot be born without the field, nor without seed, therefore in law the child belongs to the father and the mother ” ; and according to Parāçara, vii, 6 the giving away of the daughter is the right of the following three : the mother, the father, the eldest brother. This is in harmony with the well-known Vetāla tale of the three wooers and the maiden that was killed by a snake’s bite, but called back to life again by magic. Cp. Meyer, *Altind. Rechtsschr.*, 227 f.