Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.98

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² In German: Tendenzfiktion (tendentious fiction). Further, Viṣṇu, xv, 3 also says that the kṣhetraja is begotten by a sapiṇḍa or a Brahman (uttamavarṇa) (it is not said whether the husband is still alive). That a ripe (but not yet married) maiden should without hesitation let children be begotten to her by an excelling Brahman (or: by a Brahman as being the most excellent of men) Devayānī finds quite in order (i, 83.1–8). She is a Brahman woman, and the girl in question a Kṣhatriyā. Cp. Malory’s *Morte d’Arthur*, iii, 3.