Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c10.13

v2.c10.13

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| *a.* | *In the Epic, too, there are splendid poems on love.* | 277 |
| *b.* | *Tales of the man's romantic love (Śāntanu and Satyavatī, Saṃvaraṇa and Tapatī, Ruru and Pramadvarā)* | 278 |
| *c.* | *The love romance of the giant maiden Hiḍimbā* | 291 |
| *d.* | *Rāma's love lament and sorrow for the lost Sītā* | 295 |
| *e.* | *Bhīma's chivalry towards Draupadī (his search for the golden flower, his revenge on Kīcaka, etc.)* | 298 |
| *f.* | *The wild and heedless love life of the man (the woman only a booty, the holy man as host of love, wife robbery and the ministering to pleasure among the gods, the enjoyment of many women the man's ideal, the rewarding of virtue with women in heaven* | 315 |
| *g.* | *Places and opportunities for love (parks, woods, picnics)* | 322 |
| *h.* | *Arousing love :—* | |
| | *(i) Heady drink, and festivals and sacrificial feasts enlivened by it, the unabashed participation of women in the joys of drinking, the amorous effects of intoxication in women* | 324 |
| | *(ii) The things of nature (spring glories, beauties of nature, forest, bird-song, wind, etc.)* | 328 |
| | *(iii) Love-charms* | 330 |
| *i.* | *Love is the highest good* | 331 |
| *k.* | *Love is all-powerful and does away with responsibility* | 332 |
| *l.* | *It robs of shame and virtue* | 333 |
| *m.* | *It is the root of pain and death* | 333 |
| *n.* | *It must be enjoyed in moderation* | 333 |
| *o.* | *Macrobiotic rules for love and marriage* | 333 |
| *p.* | *Love must be on both sides and is given to the person present* | 334 |
| *q.* | *The woman in love goes to the tryst in the man's house* | 335 |
| *r.* | *Explanation of concepts, phallolatry, and some erotic details* | 338 |