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Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.42

Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.42

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Kāma: makes the beautiful women yielding for Indra, 319 note 3 (cf. Wilson, Sel. Works, iii, 35); is intoxication, 326; the highest thing, 330; allpowerful, 332 (cf. xiii, 85, 11, 16, 17 : Kāma is the oldest and greatest god, has power over everything and can produce everything); is the fire god, 332; definition, 338. Cf. Love Karṇa : his begetting by the sun god, and exposure, 30; endowed with magic virtues on account of his armour and earrings, 33; excels Arjuna in archery, 37; abductor of girls, 76; embittered against Draupadī, who offended him at the Svayaṃvara, 84, 115, 446; his original connection with her, 456 Kaucalyā : her grief and protest when Rāma departs, 196, 473 Kīcaka : his adventure with Draupadī, and death, 304 Killing of the woman : an evil crime, 487; of the unchaste, however, quite or almost entirely free from punishment, 250, 274, 489, 522 King : a wicked monster, 273, 524 note 3; causes rain and all welfare and calamity in the country, 286; does not ask, 302; his principal virtues, 456; universal security under a good king, 490; a time without a king terrible, 115 Klinnapāṇi, 62 Kopayati dharmam, 58 (cf. vidhiprakopa, violation of the holy order (or : of fate ?), v, 29, 29; raṅgaprakopana, infringement of the laws holding for the stage, i, 135, 4) Kṛi : in tat kṛitvā, thinking thus, 31; kṛi with accus. of person = “do towards,” etc., 344 note Kṛiṣṇa : as abductor of women, 68, add. to 78; Arjuna’s friend and ally, 73; lover of women, 271; provides sufficient food in a miraculous fashion, 401; Satī of his wives, 414; performs a miracle on Draupadī, 447; promises her revenge, 454 Kṣhattriya, see Warrior Kṣhetraja, 168, 176 Kṣhveḍita, 324 Kuntī : as a good daughter, 25; her adventure with the sun god, and Karṇa’s birth and exposure, 30; grief on account of her unmarried motherhood, 35, cf. 212 note 1; holds a Svayaṃvara, 78; bears three sons for the gods, 163; sorrow and grief as a mother, 210, 419; goes into the penitential forest, 415; urges her sons on, 457; provoked on account of her fellow-wife Mādrī, 475