Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.73

v1.c6.73

this work was done, she lived with him, and there gave life to three sons: Durjaya, and the two others, great chariot-fighters. Do thou, O lovely one, be swiftly stirring about my business (manniyogāt) so that thou raise up offspring for thyself from a Brahman of outstanding asceticism” (i, 120.35 ff.). So, too, in 122.30, 31 he makes the beseeching request that she shall obtain for herself sons of excelling gifts, from a Brahman distinguished for tapas. In like wise the Brahman Vasisṭha calls a son into being for the king Kalmāṣapada (who is here, be it said, divyena vidhinā), and at this prince’s own request. Here, too, a curse is at work, i, 177.32 ff. ; cp. 182.26. The same old holy man does this service in i, 122.21 f. : “By the son of Uddālaka, Çvetaketu Sandāsa, the pious Madayantī (his wife) was charged (niyukta), and went to the Ṛishi Vasisṭha, so we have been told. From him the fair one got a son, Açmaka by name. And this she did to show a favour to her husband.”