Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.44

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Liṅga-worship, 338 Litter : women in particular carried therein, 232, add. to 232 Lokayātrā, 343, 495 Lopamudrā : called into existence and married by Agastya, 149; her love-union with him, 229 Love : the man must be obliging to the woman in love, 13, 46, 48, 51, 135, 220, 257, 294, 337, 383; in love persons to whom respect should be shown count for nothing, 32; love free for all, 33; woman takes the first step and leads in love, 45, 380, cf. 13; is necessary, in order that there may be children, 60, cf. 65; as the foundation of marriage, 90, 135, 139; a woman in love is turned back by nothing and is endowed with magic virtues, 134; love for woman the meaning of life, 133, 327, 355; romance in love for the man, 278, 295; half of life for the beloved, 288; love for the husband paramount, 292; the woman in love not responsible, 293; love the highest good, 331; its power and destructiveness, 332; hygiene, 333; must be reciprocal, 334; directs itself towards the person present, 334; definition and origin, 338, 359, 361; is an idea, 338, cf. 361; talent of the woman for love, 379, cf. 277; how the girl's earlier secret love and promise of marriage are taken into consideration, 381, cf. add. to 78; the man who cannot part from his dead beloved, 418; woman does not love at all, 501; too great a love for the wife foolish and bad, 531. Cf. Abhisārikā, Kāma, Surata, Woman Love-charms, 330 Love-life of the man, 315, 340 Love-plaints, 295 Love-visit of the woman, see Abhisārikā Luck-bringing things, 11, 141, 231, 266, 268, 327. Cf. Body, Greatness Lying-in woman : through bearing lives together with death, 344, 391; spirits dangerous to her and the child, 391 and add.; woman who has died in childbirth an evil spirit, 393; goes straight to heaven, 393; unclean and makes the husband also unclean, 391, 397; how long an interval between the separate confinements, 391 add.