Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c13.56

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That the man should need a very long time to bring a child into the world, when he becomes pregnant, seems easy to understand.² There once lived a king, mighty in sacrifices, of the line of Ikshvāku, Yuvanāçva his name. " As this very glorious and pious one had no offspring, he handed over the kingdom to his ministers, and gave himself up to life in the forest, plunging his soul, he that had his soul under his control, in reflection in the way laid down by the books of instruction. One day, the prince, tormented with fasting,