Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c18.68

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espec. 65 and 70; Ṛgveda, x, 83 and 84. But Kauṭilya, 501.11 ff. agrees with Herman Melville when he says: “Hate is woe” (Moby Dick, ch. cxix). See also MBh., iii, 29; and so on ad infinitum in Old India. Tegnér’s splendid song of praise to “Oro” (Unrest) comes into the mind, when we read such verses as: “Discontent is the root of happiness, therefore I love it; if a man strives after rising, that, O king, is the highest wisdom in life.” Cp. i, 180.3; ii, 50.17 ff.; 49.13, 14; 55.11; v, 160.61, 92; etc.; but especially the utterances of Vidulā (v, 133 ff.) to be shortly given.