Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.100

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Anyone with a knowledge of the sexual ways of the Middle Ages smiles at this meaningly to himself, as also at the words of Schweiger-Lerchenfeld which he regales us with in his description of Indian wedding customs: “The abstinence, too, by the newly wedded couple, for three whole days, has come down to us as a shining symbol from the mists of antiquity with its lofty conceptions of chastity” (*Die Frauen des Orients*, p. 591).