Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.37

v1.c8.37

¹ Also MBh., xii, 228.73 would belong here, if kaççic chishyasakho guruḥ has been rightly translated by Deussen : “ Now and then the teacher was the disciple’s lover ” (the immorality which spread among the Daityas is being spoken of). But perhaps it only means that the disciple’s reverential relation towards the teacher vanished, and too little restraint, or over-familiarity, came in its stead. As an evil habit of the degenerates it may here be further mentioned that the men dressed in women’s clothes and the women in men’s, and they so associated with one another (çl. 68), which reminds us of other phenomena known. Cp. xiii, 104.85.—The passage in the text (iii, 190.45, 50) could, it is true, also be speaking only of adultery.