Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.18

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about her eyes, 427; her share in affairs of state, 464, add. to 471 Gandharva marriage: is considered as lawful, 45, cf. Matrimony: the different kinds; a matter specially for the warrior, 68, 89, 94, 282; an example, 90; the best form for the nobility, 89, 95; a right of the lord, 95; = free love, 95; altogether the most excellent form of matrimony, 282 Gandharvas: necessary for the fertility of woman, 60 note 3; as pre-marital owners of woman, 227, 310, add. to 391; husbands of Draupadi, 304; lust after women, 311 Gaṅgā: becomes the wife of Çantanu, throws her children into the water, may not be questioned, 47 Gatasattva, 442 Generatio aequivoca, 374 Genitive: consonantal, of vowel-stems, 187; = abl., 117 Ghosts' nature: they are stupid and are cheated, 313 Giant-stories, 291. Cf. 21, 184 Gifts: meritorious for a Brahman to accept them, 14, 511; demanded by the Brahman, 67; to give them is tapas, 153; Kshattriyas must give, 221; gift of the unchaste woman and of the king is bad, 522, 524 Girl: not welcome, 6, 22; difficult to marry, 7, 148; loved and happy, 8; games and amusements, 9, 12, 19, 89, 232, 271, 323, 467, 510, cf. Drinking, Festivals; inherits, 9, luck-bringing object, 11; how to beget a girl, 11, 367; spoiled, 11; education of the girl, 8 note 3, add. to 13, 308, 470; herself courts the man (makes the proposal of marriage), 13, 20, 315, 409 (cf. Love); is a good daughter, 21; only father or kinsman must give her away, 31, 54; has unrestricted freedom in matters of love, 32; must be married, 54 (cf. Ritu); when she may marry herself away, 58, cf. 171 note 2; is given away once, 63 note; need not be chaste, 121; a girl, who has borne a child, asked for as wife, 177; a girl captured in war not asked before a year, 564; a trust handed over to the father for the husband, 185, 340; easily seduced, 217. Cf. Daughter Giving of presents: giving of the bride the best and the nature of the four first kinds of marriage, 55, 67; is alone right, 61; is bad, 75; is the highest giving, 410; giving of the wife to another, 512; water poured out on giving presents, see Water Go: = mother, woman, 524 note 2 God (creator): reviled, 384, 450 Gods: not bound by moral laws, 39; their misdeeds, 64; worshipped from fear, 398; as pursuers of women, 318