Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.124

v2.c11.124

Thus, too, we find it given as the pride of the earthly warrior, and the picture of mortal man’s glory “ to press the breasts of loving women, to make gifts, and to slay foes ” (viii, 83.23 ; 94.46, 47). So Bhūriçrava’s wife, when bewailing the dead man, boasts thus of his hand that Arjuna has shot away : “ This is the hand which slew heroes, and gave security to friends, which gave thousands of cows, and dealt death to