Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.42

v1.c8.42

But the Epic particularly often stresses the prohibition against a man embracing any woman other than his own wife. This has already been touched on. A few more passages are given here. He who in other things is pious, and is content with his own wife, and does not even in thought covet another woman, wins a glorious lot in the other world, and the same merit even as one that offers a thousand horse-sacrifices (xiii, 107.10, 50 ff.).¹ Subhadrā bewailing her son, says in