Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c18.62

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¹ Or probably better, as I translated before: "Offspring, action, and knowledge." The conclusion, indeed, shows that religious works are at least included. How could this be thought of otherwise, indeed, in an Indian, who even "sins religiously"? The forefathers' offerings made by the sons are of help, of course, in the world of the dead, through pious works men come into the heaven of the gods, the glories of which, it is true, pass away, and knowledge, philosophical knowledge, sets free from the Saṃsāra.