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# Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c17.23

Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c17.23

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### [v2.c17.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.23)

“ My heart, robbed of happiness, with much sorrow  
Overwhelmed, is of a truth unyielding staunch,  
That it splinters not in a thousand pieces,  
Like some mountain-ridge struck by a thunderbolt.”

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