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SEXUAL LIFE IN ANCIENT INDIA
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HE Mahabharata in its present form is a composition from widely separated periods in the history of Old Indian literature, and its elements are derived from various parts of the Old Indian land. It was not written by one man, but it is the work contributed by many hands. It is a growth : one piece from here, another from there ; one from this time, another from that. Like an Indian jungle it spreads out before us in an endless wilderness of trees entwined and tangled with rank creepers, coloured and scented with manifold flowers and blossoms, and the home of every kind of living creature. Bewitching bird-song, the terrifying cries of wild bears fall on our ears ; the poisonous snake winds its coils beside the mild dove ; the robber dwells therein, free, indeed, from the law, but often the slave of supersiitions beyond belief ; and so the self-denying thinker with his eyes set above the earth, and his thoughts reaching into the depths of the world and of his soul. There lie the roots of a glowing, unbounded wealth of life, of a will wrong beyond any other power ; and by their
side are found the depths of dreaming, the heavy dead sleep of many thousand years, so that we should ourselves sink into it, too, were it not for the swarms of Ringing flies. And so we could long go on, setting wonder again^ wonder, but hardly ever reaching an end to it all ! It is a " great sea ", to sail over which " threefold bronze " is needed, not, indeed, about the breaft, but anyhow, about another, not so heroic part of
the body.
JOHANN JAKOB MEYER - Personal Name
NONE
Social Science
English
1953
1-616
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