Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.131

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² Cp. Raghuv., vii, 11: my Daçakum., 64 ff.; 231; Amitagati, Subhāṣitasamd., xx, 24 (ZDMG, 61.119); Rajendra Lala Mitra in the Journ. of the Roy. Asiatic Soc. of Bengal, 1873, Part 1, No. 1: “Indo-Aryans,” i, 389; Phear, The Aryan Village in India and Ceylon, 90; R. Schmidt, Liebe u. Ehe in Indien, 44 ff. Especially good descriptions of drunken and therefore extraordinarily attractive and amorous women are given in Kirātārj., ix, 51 ff.; Çiçup., x, 1-38. —Best of all things on earth is the taste of vāruṇī and latvākā-birds (MBh., xii, 180.31). Only the Brahmans were forbidden spirits by Çukra, as we have been told, and although they do not always abstain from it in the Epic, yet abstinence struck root among them from early times; and how great an abomination was intoxicating drink to the members of the priestly caste later on, is shown even by Vidūshaka in the Nāgānanda (see my Samayamātṛikā, pp. xxvii, xxx). The original grounds for this horror are pointed out by me in Altind. Rechtsschr., pp. 25 f.; 352.