Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.97

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¹ See, for instance, Kauṭilya (transl.), 43.4 ff.; Brantôme, *Œuvr. compl.* ed. du Panthéon lit., ii, 243b. In his view the wives, however, must not reckon on such politeness in their husbands as is shown by many, who themselves invite gallants to their wives, and charge the lovers to treat the beloved one well (p. 250 f.), but those fair ones who are burdened with an ugly, stupid, pitiful husband must have children made for themselves by dapper, proper *serviteurs—pour l’amour de leur lignée* (262 ff.). Cp., too, Henne am Rhyn, *Die Frau in der Kulturgesch.*, p. 113 (among the Spartiatae the lover could even demand of the husband to share in the wife).