Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c13.51

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The sojourn in the mother’s womb is looked on too as something nauseating and gruesome in the Epic, as has already been mentioned, and as such it is even made use of figuratively (ix, 56.32, as often in Indian literature elsewhere). The womb thus is even called in MBh., K, xii, 215.7 narakagarta