Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.28

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poem : “Der Fürst ritt auf die Jagd” in his *Weisheit des Brahmanen*; Bulloram Mullick, *Home Life in Bengal*, p. 24 f.; Temple, *Legends of the Panjab*, i, 264; Ward, *View of the Hindoos*⁵, 273; Divyāvad., p. 435 (cp. Jāt. Nos. 334, 520); Cardonne, *Mélanges*, p. 89 ff.; Crooke, *North-Western Provinces of India*, p. 170; etc. From the MBh. some of the passages are : i, 64.15, 16; 68, especially 10; 105.44; 109.¹ ff.; ii, 13.14 ff.; 33.1 ff.; 38.27-29; iii, 185; 207.28 ff.; iv, 28.15 ff.; 132.15 ff.; v, 147.25 ff.; xii, 29.51 ff.; 69.75 ff.; 91.9; 141.9, 10; 223.5 ff.; xiii, 62.43 f. The Old Indian king, too, does not know better : In the kingdom of the Kalingas there is a heavy drought; everything is ruined. The people make complaint to the ruler, who then says : “I will make the god rain,” and gives himself up to good works. But as this is no good, King Vessantara’s state-elephant is asked for; where it comes, there it rains (Jāt., vi, p. 487).—To tat we can add puram. Or the liter. transl. might be : Hence it became (or : It became) in this way like the city filled with ghosts, etc.