Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c7.1

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AT the centre point in this intimate family life is the mother, covered with much glory by Indian literature; and, as has been already pointed out, to the Hindu it is just this side of a woman’s life that is the beginning and the end. Woman as a mother takes up in the Epic, too, an important place.