Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.60

v1.c8.60

In the Epic, intercourse with the teacher's wife is often marked out as peculiarly shameful. Such a sinner is reincarnated as one without manly powers (xiii, 145.53; see also xiii, 111.64 ff., and cp. Manu, xi, 49; xii, 58). The atoning punishment here is as follows: "He that stains (gurutalpin) the teacher's bed shall seat himself on a glowing iron plate (çilām taptām ayasīm),¹ cut off his own member, and go away with uplifted eyes. Freed from his body, he is freed from his