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the man becomes alive and alert to the woman's urge for uplift and her equal and rightful place in the sanctuary of spiritualism, the better for both man and woman If this warning is not heeded, a day is not far off when the religious systems which condemned woman will themselves come forward and condemn man
Footnote
1 Kusumavatı herself had composed a couplet depicting the breaved
condition of a female swan She had put it down below the picture which also she herself had prepared for being sent to prince Simha with whom a love-affair had started, pp 87-88 Bibliotheca Indica
Edition by Jacobi 2 Op Cit p 922 3 Rig 10, 85, 46 4 Samaraiccakaha, op cit, p 814 5. Op cit, p 241 6 Op cit, p 623 7 Gautama Dharmasutra, 2, 56 8 Baudhayana, 2, 2, 48 9 Apastamba, 1, 10, 28, 9 10 Mahabharata, Santiparvan, 267, 31, 343, 18 11 Samaraiccakaha, op cit, p 485 12 Rigveda, 1, 167, 4 13 Samaraiccakaha, op cit, pp 339-340 and 96 14 to 17 - Punyas'ravakatha - Kosa's corresponding saories 18 Ed Jinavijayajı Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay 7 Chap 11, 18
to 41 and Chap 16, 8, stz