Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.56

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pattern of filial love, 196; laments his lost beloved, 295, 426; his honour requires that only he shall free Sītā, 426; suspects her of unfaithfulness and makes her prove her innocence by ordeal by fire, 525; repudiates her for the second time and loses her for ever, 528; how little he values her, 530 Rāmāyaṇa : characterized, 2, 412; marks of original conditions, 528 Rape, 64, 316, 490, cf. 23 Rāvaṇa : desires to violate the maiden Vedavatī, 23 Reincarnation : for revenge, 24, 387. Cf. Begetting, Wind Rejuvenescence : of Cyavana, 358 Religion : from fear, 398 Religious means of grace of woman, 346, add. to 346, 402, 427 “Re-married woman” : explanation of the concept, 174; a term of abuse, 169 “Re-marrying,” 105 Re-marrying of the girl, 60, 408; of the woman, 168, 174, 407 Reṇukā : unfaithful to her husband and killed, 201; brings back his arrows and is tormented by the sun god, 354 Requital of the wicked is certain, 15, 17, 97 Resurrection-magic, 11 Revenge : consolation in grief, 454 Rice-gruel, 127, 326 Riding : of the woman, 267, 377 Riṣyaśṛṅga : his origin, 263; why so chaste, 260; love-adventure with Śāntā (or hetæra), he causes it to rain, 540 Ṛitu : of a girl in her father’s house a sin, 54, 58, 216; makes marriage an obligation, 54, 220; gives the right of cohabiting, 216, 220, cf. 39; only the husband shall then have access to the wife, 121; definition, 216; puts the married couple under obligation to cohabit, 216, 223, 245, 353; merit and benefit of the ṛitugamana, 218, 248; the man may at that time refuse no woman, 220; how wicked at that time the killing of the woman (ātreyī), 488 Romance, see Love; “romantic reserve,” 313; outside love-relationships, 437 Rouser of love, 223, 322, 328 Rūpa, mark, mark of sex, 389 Ruru and Pramadvarā, 288