Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.36

v1.c6.36

¹ According to the comment., however, as also according to the printed text : “ The fire-sacrifice and the propagation of the threefold wisdom (of the threefold Veda), which indeed are everlasting, all these,” etc. Cp. i, 74.64. The three things named in the text are the “ threefold debt ” which is very often found in the Veda and then later ; that is, everyone owes sacrifices to the gods, gifts for the dead to the forefathers, Veda study to the Ṛishis. MBh., xii, 28.55 ; 63.20 ; 234.7 ; 269.16 ; Manu, ii, 36 ; Viṣṇu, xxvii, 15–17 ; Yājñav., i, 14 ; Baudhāyana, ii, 9, 16.4–7 ; Vasisṭha, xi, 48, and Bühler’s note to it SBE, xiv, p. 56.