Note 2 — Chapter XCII · (Vetála 18.)
C. H. (Charles Henry) Tawney translation
This vice was prevalent even in the Vedic age. See Zimmer, Alt-Indisches Leben, pp. 283–287; Muir’s Sanskrit Texts, Vol. V, pp. 425–430. It is well-known that the plot of the Mahábhárata principally turns on this vice.