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² Cp. Jātaka, Nos. 159; 267; Vasiṣṭha, xxviii, 6; Baudh., ii, 4, 5; Yājñav., i, 71 (in the last three passages: Gandharva has given women their sweet voice). Thus Eugene Field, too, sings: “For it’s everywhere known That the feminine tone Gets away with all masculine gender” (“The Doll’s Wooing” in *Poems of Childhood*).