Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c10.34

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*a. Women (girls) as gifts and fees for sacrifice . . 508* *b. Woman (the daughter) given so as to save oneself . 510* *c. The yielding up of the daughter or the wife to Brahmans as a highly meritorious deed . . . 511* *d. The satisfaction of the guest's needs of sex (through slave-woman, daughter, wife); “the man that overcame death” . . . . . . 512* *e. The wife for one's friend . . . . 517* *f. The wife as property . . . . . 518* *g. The wife's adultery is an offence against property, is therefore punished by the husband . . . 520* *h. Rāma's treatment of the supposedly besmirched Sītā . 525* *i. Woman, the wife also, can easily be got, is an unimportant object of the senses . . . . 530*