Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c21.39

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P. 164, near end. As to Kuntī’s fear of moral stain cp. in the interpolated adhy. in K., i, 213, çl. 20-21: In “misfortune” and when authorized, there is for the woman according to the holy tradition one other besides the husband; but to a third man she must not go, otherwise she must atone for it. If there is a fourth the woman loses her caste, and if a fifth then she becomes a vardhaki (is the reading bandhaki? Or is it from vardh to cut? Cp. chinnā in Milindap., p. 122; Jāt., ii, 114, line 3; chinnāla “a loose fellow” (chinna + suff. āla); Uttarajjh., xxvii, 7; Deçīnāmam., 3.27; ZDMG, 58, p. 372; Charpentier in ZDMG, Bd. 70, p. 243. Skt. chinnā, according to the lexicographers “loose woman”).