Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.75

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¹ “In marrying, in the game of love, in jest and in sorrow a lie is allowable.” Gautama, xiii, 29 (and thus “some”). Vasistha, xvi, 36, has instead of the last two cases: when loss of life or of one’s whole property is threatened, or the highest weal of a Brahman comes into question. A false oath is no sin either, where a beloved woman, a marriage, fodder for a cow, or firewood is concerned, or for the purpose of obliging a Brahman, Manu, viii, 112. Cp. also Manu, viii, 104 f.; Yājñav., ii, 83; Gautama, xiii, 24 f.; Bṛhaspati, vii, 34; MBh., xii, 109.14-20.