Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c17.29

v2.c17.29

¹ It strikes one as a little strange that Indian literature, which scourges woman’s failings so heavily, does not pillory her talkativeness more. In this the Hindu is perhaps far surpassed by other peoples. Is it that the woman in India gives less ground on this point? Worthy of note, too, because of the chance coincidence, is the explanation here of why no beard grows on women. The Finnish poet of the peasantry, Jaakko Räikkönen, who was also more than ordinarily capable in the affairs of life, in his poem Tyytymättömät (printed in the Wäinölä Collection, p. 229) expresses exactly the same thought as the English verse which Thiselton-Dyer, Folk-Lore of Women, p. 68, brings from the neighbourhood of Salisbury :—