Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c7.13

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these latter are the instrument for the earthly body, while the ācārya brings about the heavenly birth (cp. Manu, ii, 144 ff.; Viṣṇu, xxx, 44). And from what has been said before, through him the world of Brahma is won, a doctrine often found in Smṛti.