Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.2

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The woman in Old India, as throughout the world, has far greater gifts for love than the man, that is, taking love in its nobler meaning, for that feeling which fills the whole being, is steadfast and faithful, grows ever deeper, and is strongly mingled with altruistic elements.¹ But that the man, too, in the Epic is capable of a like feeling and of much romantic love is over and over again to be seen.