Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.73

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*Ancient Germans*, p. 33 f., 36); among them, too, the value in law of the woman depended largely on her capability of bearing more children. And, as among them the pregnant woman enjoyed peculiar privileges (Grimm, *Rechtsaltertümer*, 1899, Bd. i, 564 ff.), so according to Smṛti she need pay no ferry-money nor toll; so also according to Kauṭilya (see 199.10-12 and addit. thereto).