Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.80

v2.c11.80

² Vṛikshān nigṛihyatām; we should expect perhaps: nikṛityatām. K (19, 36) has samūlam cātayer vṛiksham, which reads smoothly enough, it is true, but is anyhow not in the original, as, indeed, the whole Kicakaparvan in K shows many insertions and changes of an evidently later date. The passive with the accus. has many parallels in the Epic. The nearest to our case is Rām., vii, 59.2: Madartham pratigṛihyatām jarām paramikām; and the accus. with the gerundive: kiyad adhvānam asmābhir gantavyam imam īdṛiçam = “how far must we go along this road made thus” (xviii, 2.16), where probably we hardly have simple Prakrit neuters, although the neuter adhvāna is often found in the MBh. Cp. too the accus. with the pass. infin. in ii, 48.17 (liter. indeed: “I know by what the overcoming of Y. is made possible.”). See e.g. also iii, 68.25; xii, 215.14; xiv, 29.22; 71.14; 87.12; xv, 3.59; etc.