Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c13.62

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A *generatio aequivoca* is likewise related in the old Purūravas saga. The Mahābhārata gives the following account: All the sons of Manu perished through strife. “Then was Purūravas born of Ilā; she was both his mother and his father; so we have been told” (i, 75.18, 19). On the other hand, according to Rām., vii, 87 ff., he is the son of Ilā and Budha in the ordinary way. Ila, the very mighty king of the Bāhlika was roving on the hunt through the forest in the heart-delighting spring-time. At this same time Çiva together with his wife was taking his delight on the mountain where Kārttikeya had been born, and for her he changed himself into a woman; all the other male beings, too, which were