Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c15.2

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¹ On the spiteful ill-nature of this "holy man with the purified soul" besides what has been already told and our passage see especially iii, 262.7-15; xiii, 159. In hotness of temper his no less pious brother-hermit Bhūti may be compared with him: in Bhūti's hermitage the wind therefore did not dare to blow strongly, the sun to shine hotly, the rain to cause any dirt; even the water he drew in his pitcher was afraid of him. Mārkaṇḍeyapur., xcix, 2 ff. Cp. MBh., iii, 110.9 ff. Durvāsas was, however, in our case put up to it by Duryodhana (iii, 262.16 ff.).