Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.77

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³ Even for the sake of mother or father a man shall not speak an untruth (xiii, 107.50). “They that neither for their own sakes, nor for the sake of others, nor in play, nor to make a jest say that which is not, come into heaven. They that neither to save their life, nor for the sake of a holy end, nor of their own free will speak untruth come into heaven” (xiii, 115.71 we meet the beautiful instruction: “Speak the truth and not falsehood; truth is the eternal good (the eternal law, etc.); Hariçcandra walks in heaven in moonlike glory because of his truthfulness.” This does not harmonize with ii, 12.10 ff., according to which this celebrated king won such great