Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.5

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Bard, see Sūta Bathing: naked, 262; men waited on by women at the bath, 134, 323, 508 Beans: forbidden, see Onion Bear-worship, 395 Beauty: how a beautiful woman was made, 149, 540; description of feminine beauty, 278, 335, 542; beautiful woman shines, 280, 285 (cf. J. J. Meyer, *Isoldes Gottesurteil*, notes, No. 159, and in addition especially Arnold, *Ztschr. d. Vereins f. Volkskunde*, Bd. 12, pp. 166 f.); attracts too strongly to the surata, 311; beauty of the body and of the soul connected, 430; ideal of beauty, 430; “catalogue of beauty,” 432; is woman’s strength, 539; brings dead things into life, 539, cf. 431 Begetting: other than natural, 33, 155, 241, 262 (cf. 370); what is necessary for it, 60; is the highest duty, 147; how it happens, 182, 359; how to accomplish it, 243; is a matter of divine service, 367; how does one beget boys, and girls? 367; kinds of begetting, 370; with dead, 416. Cf. Birth, Children, Pregnancy, Surata, Unfruitfulness Begetting by proxy: by Dīrghatamas, 160; by Brahmans, 159, 169, 219; by Vasistha, 161, 167, 234; by a disciple, 162; by gods, 162; in general in India, 169; among various peoples, 171 note; sons of the wife by another man, 174 Bhagadaivata, 288 Bhīma: how strong already as a new-born infant, 164; his wildness as a boy, 211; story of his love-affair with Hidimbā, 291; kills the Rākshasa Hidimba, 291; fetches the golden flower for his beloved, 298; his chivalry towards Draupadī, 298; his high-spirited strength, 299; rebukes Yudhishthira, 302, 447; kills Kīcaka, 304; shows himself gentle, 453 Bhīshma: his birth, 47; abducts girls, 69, 381; has to raise up children to his brother, 165; his self-denying love for his father, 194, cf. 165 Birth: other than natural, 25, 80, 87, 155, 262, 373, add. to 374; immediately after conception, 41, 295, 371; how it comes about, 366; the child at the same time loses recollection of its earlier existence, 367; renders the father unclean too, 397 Birth-mark: the new-born child’s golden birth-mark, 192 Blood of the slain: drinking the, 303, 448; blood gives life to departed spirits, 223 Body: its character and attributes disclose the woman’s worth and ability, 41, 143, 431, 434; constituents are constantly changing, 93, 364; a holy city and its gates, 248; lower half unclean, 249