Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c17.14

v2.c17.14

¹ As is well known the widow still has to hear this to-day among the Indians, as also among many other peoples and tribes. The natural reading of the words of the text would be: “The wife’s first death, it is said, is the incapacity of the husband; thou, who didst live gloriously art gone hence before me, who, too, lead a good life.” This meaning, however, does not fit in well, and close constructions are not seldom found in the two Epics.