Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c7.28

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¹ According to Manu, viii, 317 ; Vasisṭha, xix, 44, the adulteress casts off her sin onto the husband ; he should have kept her from it. ² The very expression ātmānam dadau does not seem at all to allow of a reference to the son she has borne him. ³ Liter. : suggestion, reference, hint. On this conception cp. Freidank's *Bescheidenheit* ed. Bezzenberger, p. 158 : Swâ wîp, etc. ⁴ Probably not so well : the whole assemblage, etc., comes into the mother. ⁵ Or : If a man is told : “ I am at thy bidding,” then he (in the world, anyhow) will show his inclination. This version is after all