Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c7.38

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And towards the other wives of the father the sons show in the Epic a pious spirit like that we have already met with in Rāma. Along with other heroes Yudhiṣṭhira should here again be mentioned, who begs Nakula off from death and not his own brothers, when the Yaksha in the pond lets him have only one of the four dead, and who gives as the reason : “ Both the wives of my father are dear alike to me ; both Mādrī and Kuntī shall have a son ” (iii, 313.13).¹