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Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.3

Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.3

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the world, 97, 525, 527; adventure with a princess and the granting of sexual freedom to women, 116; previous owner of woman, 227, 312, add. to 391 Ahalyā, *see* Indra Ahasuerus or “wandering Jew”: Indian and American Indian, 191 Ākṣipta, “ (lightly) thrown round,” 540 Ākṣobhya, hurrying, stirring, 300 Alone: each is, 92 Amarṣa: is commended, 451, 460, cf. 307 Ambā: abducted and robbed of marriage by Bhīṣma, is bent on vengeance, 381 Amçu, moonbeam, add. to 82 Ānantaryam ārabhate, 460 Anāvṛta, 118, 119 Ancestors: hanging like birds in a cave, 147; bestow children, 223; send one hunting and love flesh-offerings, 223 Anger: must be checked, 16, 249; hot temper the special attribute of holy men, 25, 233, 352, 400, 510, 541; one who is angry licks the corners of his mouth, 308; anger a virtue, 451, 460; angry sulking of the woman, 494; anger soothed by a woman, 535 Animal languages: man who understood them, and his inquisitive wife, 503 Anuyukta, 20 Aparvan, 461 Apsaras: seduces saints, 260; as houri, 321, 337; deserts her new-born child, 92, 97, 99, 288 Ārdrapaṇi, 62 Arjuna: is forced into a love-affair by Ulūpī, 51; abducts Subhadrā, 73 and add.; wins and carries off Draupadī, 80; defeats Karṇa in archery, 85; marries Citrāṅgadā, 103, 258, 351 and add.; goes into “exile of chastity,” 112; as hero of chastity, 258; will not cohabit with Urvaçī and is therefore cursed by her, 335; as eunuch, 470; inquires not till late after wife and child, 530 Armour: magic, *see* Magic; ornamented with gold and jewels, 70 Ārti, hot desire, 259 Aṣphuṭant, 284 Ass: valued against mule, 144; bad as a draught-animal, 267; the adulteress’s ride on an ass, 255, 521; the ass’s skin of the unchaste disciple and his offering of an ass, 257 Ati and ativa, “standing above, excelling,” 279 Atigrāhya, 118 Atisarva, 363 Ātreyī, *see* Ritu. Āvāha and āvāhya, 56 Avalipta, befouled, 126 Avamardana, coition, 318