Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.49

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² Also hunger destroys virtue and, as the old Upanishad so clearly teaches, knowledge and wisdom (iii, 260.24; ix, 51.36 ff.; xiv, 90.90, 91; cp. v, 33.101 f.; xiii, 93.66 f.). Therefore, according to an old verse, the draught-ox, the sacrifice in fire, and the scholar must eat heartily. Āpast., ii, 5, 9.13; Vashishṭha, vi, 21; Baudh., ii, 7, 13.7-8; ii, 10, 18.13; Çāṅkh.-Gṛihyas., ii, 16.5; K, i, 85.21.