Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.70

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¹ Cp. the prāya (prāyopaveça, dharna) and Billington, 248 ff. Devendra Das, *Sketches of Hindoo Life*, 180 f. Tod, *Rajasthan*, i, 740-2 ; ii, 182-3 ; 674-7 (here the Bhāts are discussed, who are related to the Kshattriyas, and probably descend from them); Devendra Das, 205 (fakirs light a fire and threaten to burn their arms, if their wish is not fulfilled); and so forth. Cp. Crooke, *Popul. Relig. and Folkl.* etc.¹, p. 122 ; Jolly, *Sitzungsber. d. bayr. Akad.*, 1877, p. 316; Zachariae in *Zeitschr. d. Ver. f. Volksk.*, 1925-1926, p. 149 ff.; E. Thurston, *Omens and Superstitions of Southern India* (Lond., 1912), p. 144 f.; Hopkins, JAOS, vol. 21, 2nd half (1900), pp. 146-159; also Āpast.-Dharmas., i, 6, 19.1. For the dharna cp. Schurtz, *Urgesch. d. Kultur*, p. 615.