Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c17.25

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SĪTĀ is wholly the Indian ideal of a woman : tender and mild, soft and dreamy as moonlight, self-forgetting, filled with love, devotion, sincerity, faithfulness, and yet, where it is a case of defending womanly virtue, nobility of soul, and purity of body, a strong heroine, great above all in long-suffering, but great, too, in her unyielding, daring pride.