Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.76

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¹ Essentially the same in found in Kshemendra, Daçāvatāracar., viii, 509-513. Cp. Thurston, *Omens and Superstitions*, p. 239. So among “woman’s duties” there is also especially given: mūlakriyāsv anabhiratiḥ to take no pleasure in magic by roots. Viṣṇu, xxv, 7. How often, then, may the hurt Indian fair one along with other magic (especially well represented in the Atharvaveda) have made use, too, of that so often recorded in Western lands, making a figure of the hated woman, studding it with needles, arrows, nails, etc., and by this means, and through the recital of witches’ words, hoping to bring her into the same plight and kill her. See e.g. Agnipur. (Dutt), 167.42-44; 306.4 ff.; Kauṭilya, 618.1-5, 27 ff.; 657.17-20; Thurston, *Omens and Superstit.*, etc., p. 246 ff.; Dubois-Beauchamp ³, p. 389 f.; Crooke, *Pop. Rel.*, ii, 278 f.; *Gesta Romanorum*, No. 102; Pauli, “Schimpf u. Ernst,” *Stuttg. Lit. Ver.*, Bd. 85, pp. 156 and 500; Fr. v. d. Leyen, “Zur Entstehung d. Märchens,” *Herrigs Archiv*, Bd. 114, p. 10.