Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c18.9

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¹ The young girl swims with the help of a baked pot or jar to her lover; an unbaked one is foisted on her, and she drowns. J. C. Oman, *The Mystics, Ascetics, and Saints of India*, Lond., 1903, p. 266 ff.; Huth, *Zschr. f. vergleich. Literaturgesch.*, N.F., Bd. 4, p. 189; cp. Stuttg. Lit. Ver., Bd. 208, pp. 127, 131; Hagen, *Gesamtab.*, i, p. cxxviii f., and note. The jar or pot for crossing over is also mentioned in MBh., xiii, 34.18; Rām., ii, 89.20. Cp. Hertel, ZDMG, Bd. 65, p. 439.