Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c7.71

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disciple Uttanka with the care of the house; he was to see to it that no harm came. While he was dwelling there, all the wives of the teacher together called him and spoke: "The teacher's wife has the ṛitu, and the teacher is away. Do thou so act that her ṛitu be not fruitless; she is in despair." Thus addressed, he made answer: "I must not at the urging of women do this monstrous deed. For the teacher did not enjoin on me: 'Even a monstrous deed shalt thou do.'" When the teacher then came home again, and learned from him what had happened, he rewarded him most magnificently, but the woman took her revenge by and by, when she found the opportunity.