Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c18.73

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¹ This of course is a wonderful stone of the kind often found in the tales: whoever wears it is proof against all fear and danger; hunger and want, sickness and weapons have to leave him unscathed, even gods, demons, and spirits have no hold on him. See in my Daçakum., p. 166; K. Fleck's *Flore und Blancheflur*, 2884 ff.; 6713 ff.; Hagen's *Gesamtab.*, i, 463. With this piece of the MBh. cp. Bhāgavata-purāṇa, i, 7.14 ff. (Arjuna brings A. before Draupadī, and cuts the jewel out of his head).