Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c18.42

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¹ To be laid hold of by the hair is looked on as particularly ignominious, and the offence of thus dishonouring a woman as dreadful beyond all comparison. See e.g. vii, 195.8 f., 19 f. ; 196.42 ; K, xii, 14.84. Cp. also viii, 83.20 f. [From Melanesia for the tabu head or hair of a woman of the class of chiefs cp. G. C. Wheeler, *Mono-Alu Folklore*, p. 23 (Translator).]