Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c17.49

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As already suggested, the figure, build, and beauty of woman have a great importance for her destiny, quite apart from conquests over the hearts of men. Çrī or Lakshmī is at the same time the goddess of beauty and also of happiness. Therefore in her wretchedness Sītā says : “ The body-marks as a result of which the unlucky women are doomed to widowhood, them I do not see on myself. My hair is fine, smooth, and black ; my brows do not run together¹; my legs are