Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c21.73

v2.c21.73

P. 404, n. Majjh., i, 190, speaks with emphatic and quite unmistakable words: Seyyathā pi āvuso suṇisā sasuraṃ disvā saṃvijjati, saṃvegam āpajjati, evam-eva, etc., “just as the daughter-in-law, when she sees her father-in-law, is disconcerted, is abashed, so, etc.” This comparison is also found elsewhere in the Majjh. I have only just seen the short communications on Indian examples by M. Winternitz and B. Liebich, WZKM, xxvi, 237 ff.; xxvii, 474 ff.