Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c21.30

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P. 126. Perhaps also xii, 207.40 speaks of the introduction of marriage. The passage might be translated: In the Dvāpara Age it was that the usage of copulation arose among creatures; then in the Kali Age mankind came to pairing (dvandvām āpedire). Cp. e.g., xii, 301.37, which has dvandvānām viprayoga, where Nil. is undoubtedly right in saying: dvandvānām dampatinām. Thus: while in the Dvāpara there was simply sexual union, it was only in our evil age that mankind took to marriage. [From Melanesia for a time when the true sexual act was not yet