Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.119

v2.c11.119

¹ So according to ix, 29.54; 30.8, 44, 56, 63, 66; 31.2, 4, 20; 32.38; 54.31 (cp. i, 1.209; 2.283), where Duryodhana flees into the pond, and by his magic powers heaps it up about himself, in like wise, probably, as it happened for the children of Israel. In the following he is always seen as being in the water. In our passage perhaps viṣṭabhya might in itself be more naturally translated : suppressing it; that is to say, he made it vanish, dry up. An actual drinking dry, as in the case of Agastya, is probably not meant; but cp. xiii, 153.3 ff.