Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.83

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² In K. she expresses herself far more emphatically still. There among other things she cries out (22.45 ff.): “Be thou my stay; I do not wish to turn to Yudh., the man without strength of will, without the passion of revenge (amarsha), without manhood. Oh! may no woman bear such a son! . . . As the rutting lord of the herd, the sixty year old elephant, tramples with his feet on the bilva-fruit fallen to the ground, and squashes it, so do thou, O man-tiger, pound in fragments Kīcaka’s skull, after thou hast flung him to the ground. If Kīcaka rises to-morrow morning, and when the night has grown light [accus. absol. çarvarīṃ vyushṭām, as, for instance, in v, 194.2; vi, 3.35; 60.1; vii, 74.46; 76.27; 29.44; ix, 30.21, like the not unfrequent prabhātām çarvarīṃ], sees the rising sun, then I can no longer live. . . . And put the blame on thine eldest brother, the evil dice-player, through whose fault I have been brought to this boundless sorrow. But they, whose head and eldest is a shameful stain on his family, will probably, as men of humble spirit, follow after their excellent brother.”