Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.111

v2.c19.111

¹ = Manu, ii, 214. Women's love is the intoxicating draught of the three worlds; but while wine only clouds when it is drunk, woman robs the understanding, if she is but looked on; and so she has infatuated the highest of the gods and wise men. Agnipur., 372.12-14. Woman is the fire, man the butter, which is bound to melt from the fire, if it comes near it. Bhāgavatapur., vii, 12.9. Therefore a man shall not be alone even with mother, sister, or daughter; for the senses are all too strong. Manu, ii, 215; Bhāgavatapur., ix, 19.17. This is still the view to-day in India (Dubois-Beauchamp ³, p. 131). And so on indefinitely, all bearing witness to the weakness—of the man.