Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.12

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Dancing and dancing-instruction of girls, 12, 308, 470 Daughter : equal to the son, 9, 66; made female ruler, 465. Cf. Girl Dead : fed cheaply, 128; everything is at an end for the dead, 187; soul still in the body of the dead, and “all souls,” 188; a dead child comes again in the next, 193; bestow children, 223 and add., add. to 391 end (cf. Ancestors); dead are sent their belongings, 413; come back by magic to those left behind, 415; have sexual relations and beget children, 417; mourning and tears for them are misdirected, 420 Death : the best thing for those robbed of happiness, 17; certain for everybody, 186; spares those who desire it, 425, 474; “the man who overcame death,” 512; death from a weapon takes one to heaven, 310. Cf. Violent death Debt : three- (or four-) fold on earth, 149, add. to 149 note 1, 153, 450 add.