Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c13.44

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² On the other hand Cirakāri, xii, 266.25, 26 says tersely: “Man has from the mother the conglomerate in mortality, made up of the five elements,” that is, at least in first place, the body; from the father, therefore, presumably the “soul”. This was the belief also of the Naudowessies (Westermarck, 105-106; Mantegazza, Geschlechtsverhältnisse, 231). But Cirakāri shortly before this (çl. 18) declares that to the father is due “the body and the rest” (çarīrādīni). Possibly, however, body here is to be taken = life.