Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.58

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Saṃsāra, a particular incarnation, specially a low one, 247, 488 Samucchraya, 14, 363 Saṃvaraṇa and Tapaṭī, 278 Sandal: pounded by maidservants, 308; by the daughter-in-law for the mother-in-law, 405 add. Satyavatī: has a fish-like odour, 40 (since sprung from a fish), 224; manages a ferry, 40; as a girl gives birth to Vyāsa, 39; nevertheless remains a virgin, 40, cf. add. to 34; her glorious perfume, 40; Ṣāntanu’s love for her, 278; her share in the government, 465, cf. 165 Saugandhika, (a kind of) lotus-flower, 299 (cf. ii, 3, 31; 10, 7; iii, 43, 1; 65, 2; 168, 50; iv, 31, 14) Sāvitrī: pearl of Indian womanhood, 427, 340; her “self-choice,” 78, 89 Scholar: is only a parrot, 458 (cf. e.g. ii, 55, 1.2; iii, 35, 19; xii, 10, 1) Sea: drunk up or dried up by penitent, 232, 319; why salt, 349 Seed: who has it must have the “field,” 63, 408; “seed or field”? see Field; sent by bird-post, 223; seed-forming foods, 238; emission of semen at the sight of the beautiful woman, 261; how the seed forms, 359, 361; penance on involuntary emission of semen, 256 Self: one’s own self is all that matters, 92, 96, 510 (cf. Individualism); the son one’s self, see Son “Self-choice,” see Svayaṃvara Self-culture: consists in self-discipline, 93 (e.g. v, 69, 17) Sense-organs: what they owe their origin to, 366 Sensuality: powerful in Old India, 316 Sex of the child: determination of (on begetting and in the womb), 367 Shaṣṭhī, 392 Shell: signifies good fortune, 141; = vulva, 128 Sight: the divine, 30, 484 Sītā: in an earlier existence Vedavatī, 23; sprung from the furrow, 87, 530; married to Rāma, 88; her grief when she believes Rāma dead, 422; how she behaves when Rāma is banished, 423; as Rāvaṇa’s captive, 424; an ideal woman, 427; her beauty, 432; her harshness, 436; her compassionate nature, 505; suspected of unfaithfulness and purified in the ordeal by fire, 525; second repudiation and disappearance into the earth, 528 Slaying of woman penalized, 488 Slowness: where good, 208 (cf. 202) Smelling at the head, 183 Snake fairy, 51 Sodomy, 242 Son: how necessary, 7, 22, 58, 146; is one’s own self, 22, 151, 184, 203, 341, 452; the highest earthly happiness, 151, 183; the Veda, 203, cf. 150;