Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.105

v2.c19.105

The accusations here made are often found again in the Epic, but perhaps none so often as that of the ever hungering greed of sex in the woman, and of her polyandric passion (i, 202.8 ; xii, 33.45 ; xiv, 90.13 f.). Cp. v, 40.7 (“the fire cannot get enough wood, the great sea enough rivers,” etc., as above) ; 39.82 : “In love a man cannot overcome a woman”³ ; xii, 33.45 : “The band of women is the seat of appetite.”⁴