Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.21

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¹ I read asphuṭan (instead of asphuṭan) and take it as transitive. Intransitive verbs are often used in the Epic as transitive (causative). See, e.g., i, 92.7; 139.26; 153.29; iii, 40.19; 192.54; iv, 1.25; v, 75.12; vii, 79.31; xii, 242.23; 269.45, 68; 287.11; xiii, 164.2; Rām., iv, 66.7; vi, 114.28. K (189.10) has the straightforward reading aspṛiṣan : without touching (wetting) (the king’s diadem). Ākarshan would likewise be clear. Nil. says: “With the other reading the meaning is clear.” But he does not say which. His interpretation does not agree with mine.