Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c18.98

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¹ The later legends and history of the Rājputs tell of very many sisters to these Kshattriya women Draupadī, Kuntī, and Vidulā. Read there particularly Tod, *Rajasthan*, i, 65 (the heroic mother of the weak son); 656 (with what anger the Princess of Udipur welcomes her brave, but beaten, husband); 657 ff. (how the Princess of Kanauj chooses Pṛithvīrāja of Delhi at the Svayamvara, takes part in the battle that arises out of it, afterwards arouses her husband against the Moslems, and then, when he has fallen, dies); 661 ff. (Korumdevī, who is fired with love for Sadu of Pugal, although she is already betrothed to a rajah, weds her beloved, looks on at the fight that breaks out as a result, and heroically inflicts death on herself); 709 (the Amazon); ii, 507; 513-515 (the fiercely heroic mother).