Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.16

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Father: the tenderly loving, 11, 183, 194, 203; always uncertain, 131; *pater est quem nuptiae demonstrant*, 161, 180; he whom the child resembles, 177; worth and dignity, 199, 206; woman's refuge when she meets with misfortune, 384 Father of the family: his position extremely important, 151; is tapas, 151 Fear of spirits: in certain places, at certain times, and accompanying certain actions (particularly during the surata), and as the root of morality, 243, 262, 294; in connection with Tobias nights, “romantic reserve,” *prima nox*, names, wedding-customs, 312; with childbed, 391 and add., with property of the dead, 413; with menstruation, 37 “Feet in the fire,” 402 Fellow-wife: her love for the children of the rival, 193, 212; reverence of the children towards the mother's fellow-wife, 209, 212; enmity, 474 Festivals, 73, 80, 140, 268, 324, 467; Feast of Brahma (harvest-feast), 469, 532 note 2 Fidelity: conjugal, *see* Adultery, Chastity, Marriage Field: the wife is the field, 172; does field or seed decide? 172 add., 176, 180, 201 Fire: must not be blown up with the mouth, etc., 117 (cf. xiii, 126, 29 ff.); father, mother, and teacher, the three holy fires, 200; fire from the body of the angry one, 303; in the room of the woman lying in, 396; ordeal by fire, 527; fire god, *see* Agni Flesh: food of ancestors, 223; of falcons, 224; especially of the Kshattriyas, 238, 325 Flower: as adornment on love-visits, and which flowers bring fortune or misfortune, 266 Fœtus: how curiously it forms, 182; how it develops, 360; how terrible to kill it, 372 Food: the remainder only shall the master of the house eat, 151; only after servants, wife, etc., 154, 486. Cf. Hunger Forest: description, 91, 299, 328; picnic in, 19, 322 Frog princess, 232 and add.