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Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.27

Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.27

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v2.c22.27

Indra: plays a trick on girls bathing, 13; as a bird instructs penitents, 152; begets Arjuna, 164; defiles Ahalyā, 202, 320, 356, 484 (punishment for it), 524; pursuer of women, 206, 319, 480; comes in the form of the husband to the woman he desires, 320; on account of “Brahman-murder” creeps into the water at the edge of the world, 356; appears in the form of Vasisṭha, 402; changes into all sorts of forms in order to carry off women, and wishes to embrace Ruci, 480; covered with female pudenda as punishment, 485