Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.47

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Mātula, 129 Meeting : magic, with dead loved ones, 415 Melā, 325 note Menstruation : its beginning with the girl (puberty), 29; superstition relating thereto, 37, 225; purifies the woman from magical and moral evils, 219, 227, 522, 523; sexual intercourse forbidden during menstruation, 225; the monthly flow the murder of a Brahman and extremely dangerous, 225, cf. 219; a woman then unclean and dangerous, 225; necessary for conception, 228; no menstruation in the beginning (first came through rāga), 228; clothing at this time, 444. Cf. Ritu Might is right, 39, 93, 448 Milk from the breast of the woman at the sight of the child, 211 (even with the woman who has not borne a child, K., i, 310, 13) Moon : why it wanes, 472; premarital owner of woman, 227, 312, add. to 391; as god of fruitfulness, 472 Moral law : the work of the weak, 93 Morality : dependent upon woman, 524 Moses in the bulrushes, 36 Mother : her right over the child equal to that of the father, 166; at the marriage of the child, particularly the daughter, 197, add. to 471; high position and estimation, 109, 199 (cf. iii, 313, 60), 204, 344; only a wallet, 201; reverence of the children for her, 208; her love for the children, 210, cf. 35; how heavy her burden, 344, cf. 210 Mother-right : in India, 129; the uncertainty of a child's paternity not its origin, 172; mother-right and Couvade, 397 Mountain-worship, 324 Music : at the festival, 82; young girls instructed therein, 470; its miraculous power, 479 note Myths, see Sagas