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# Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c17.5

Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c17.5

- **Language:** English

### [v2.c17.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.5)

Now bestow on the sorrow for thy wife an end.  
And grant her the grace of the death-gift;  
For the hot tears that are shed by a loved one,  
They do scorch the dead, if they for ever flow.

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