Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.96

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² With our tale compare above all Holtzmann, *Das Mahābhārata u. seine Teile*, iv, 98; Daçakumāracar., p. 172 ff. (Pushpodbhava’s adventure), espec. 176 ff., and my note on p. 178; Daçāvatāracar., viii, 555 (a woman may have Gandharvas as husbands; these then kill any man touching her); Weber’s *Ind. Studien*, xv, 337 (in the Simhāsanadvātriṃç., a Rākshasa even lays hold of a surpassingly lovely hetæra); Kuṭṭanīmatam, 347 (a demon has a woman in his possession and slays her lover). Daṇḍin’s tale is assuredly not unconnected with the Kīcakaparvan.