Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.152

v2.c11.152

Now in spring alone, that flighty youth, and all its glory, and in nature with its splendour, reliance or something like it is not always to be put. Moreover, it is not everyone that is susceptible to such. Thus, in India, the land of magic, the love-charm in its most various shapes flourished from Vedic times.² The women, of course, practised it particularly, and, above all, to the end of getting their husband's love, and keeping it, and of bringing him under their sway, but above all else to the end of wresting him from the rival, and keeping her away or destroying her. What is to be found in the Epic on this subject will be told later in another chapter.