Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.23

v2.c19.23

It is now clear from what we have shown up till now that women of the “higher circles”, especially those belonging to the warrior nobility, with whom the Epic is naturally most concerned, enjoyed no small measure of freedom. But the harem, too, is in the Epic an institution taken for granted, for the reason first of all that those of high standing often had many wives.