Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c16.5

v2.c16.5

especially woman, does not live on bread alone, but also from sunshine and from love. The widow of Old India, indeed, who was not left childless had something more for which to live, and for which she was assuredly often glad to live on ; and given the beautiful relations of the children to the mother, it must seldom have been that she was without regard and affection in her own house. But from a new marriage she was, anyhow in the upper classes, shut off.¹ Therefore does