Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.102

v2.c11.102

Now Kīcaka, who in spite of his coxcombry, was a stout warrior, as K. at least, proves in a special chapter on his descent and doughty deeds, does indeed show a certain romanticism in his passion of love, anyhow in his relations with Draupadī; for as she herself shows him clearly, it means a sacrificing of his own advantage that he should want to make her, the unclean waiting-woman, his wife. Otherwise, however, he is evidently a typical representative of a class of