Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.8

v2.c20.8

ant-hill; but Cyavana inveighed against the maiden, who, he said, was blinded by his beauty, and finally let it be understood that he would only grant forgiveness, if he was given her as his wife. The king at once gave her to him, and the king’s daughter, once so full of youthful high spirits, clad in wretched garb served the old and ugly Yogi as a loving, obedient, ungrudging wife, and quickly won his utmost content (iii, 122).