Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c21.23

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P. 84, n. 1. In chapters i, 187-194 all that is written in çlokas belongs to a later version of the material, and all such passages are interpolations, often very clumsy withal, alike whether these verses were already to hand, or whether they were composed *ad hoc*. If all the çlokas are discarded, then we have a good account in the trishtubhs, complete in all essentials. Çlokas 191.11-16 alone seem hard to dispense with. There probably trishtubhs of like content originally stood.