Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.60

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³ Cp. Jātaka, No. 67: A woman whose husband, son, and brother have been condemned to death, is allowed to beg one off; she chooses her brother; for although she declares: ‘Without water the river is bare, without a king the kingdom, without a husband the woman, though she have ten brothers,’ yet she holds: ‘The son I have in my womb, a man runs towards me on the road, but a brother I can