Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.125
Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.125
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Kshattriyas. This is the hand that took away women's girdles, pressed swelling breasts, felt navel, thigh, and secret parts, and loosened aprons" (xi, 24.18 ff.).¹ Cp. too, Gāndhārī's lament for her fallen sons in xi, 19.14, 18. The same ideal for princes is found in ii, 54.11. The happy man has fair women, and rice with meat (ii, 49.9 ff.). See e.g. also ix, 56 f. ; vi, 17.8 ff. ; xiii, 57.13 ; 106.22, 30, 32 ; K, xiv, 103.71.
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- Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit