Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.33

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¹ Adharottara is here probably an expression for “perverse” love (viparīta surata), for the usual meaning (here also accepted by the schol.) does not fit very well.—Here belongs also iii, 136.13: To the penitent Yavakrī(ta) there comes a magical being (kṛtyā) in the shape of a woman beloved by him, infatuates him, and takes away his water-jug. Since he is now ucchiṣṭa and robbed of his water-jug, an enemy Rākshasa gets him in his power. Then even the public harlot washes her hands and feet after the act of love, and rinses her mouth out (Kuṭṭanimata, 162 f.). A bath or wash afterwards is enjoined, for instance, in Manu, v, 144; Viṣṇu, xxii, 67; Parāçara, xii, 1; Mahānirvāṇatantra, vii, 75. Cp. Kāmasūtra, p. 179 of the edit.; and Wasserschleben, *Die Bussordnungen d. abendländ. Kirche*, 1851, p. 216: Maritus, qui cum uxore sua dormierit, lavet se, antequam intret in ecclesiam. Among the Hovas of Madagascar for one week before the circumcision the parents and sponsors of the child to be circumcised must abstain from coition, otherwise *l'opération ne réussirait pas bien* (Anthropos, iv, 378). And dozens of such cases. Cp. too Thurston, *Omens, etc.*, p. 29.