Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.63

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¹ So, too, Kālidāsa is quite in agreement with the second casting off of Sītā. He says of her in Raghuv., xiv, 35: “And when he had decided that the blame could not be turned aside by any other way, he yearned to wipe it out by renouncing his wife. For to those rich in renown renown is more than their own body, not to say than an object of sensual enjoyment.” In the 73rd strophe, it is true, the seer Vālmīki utters his angry rebuke on Rāma because of this “sin-stained behaviour”.—Cp. my translation of the Kuṭṭanīm., pp. 103-104, note. The South Slavs, like other peoples, also lay stress on a man being able easily to get a wife for himself again. Krauss, Sitte und Brauch, etc., p. 304.