Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c13.8

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Yudhishṭhira spoke : “ This hast thou shown, august one, how merit by works follows. But I would fain know this other, how the seed is produced.” Bṛhaspati spoke : “ What the godheads that are in the body eat for nourishment, O lord of men : the earth, the wind, the ether, water, light, and the manas—when these five elements, with the manas as sixth, have become sated therewith, O prince of kings, then the seed is brought into being, the momentous seed,³ O man of the pure soul. From it then arises the fruit of the womb upon the union of woman and man, O prince. Thereby I have set forth all to thee. What wouldst thou still hear ?” Yudhishṭhira spoke : “ Thou, holy man, hast told me how