Note 153 — Chapter VI · ToC
Reading edition
Thurston, Ethnographic Notes in Southern India, p. 114. Polyandry has flourished not only among the primitive races of India. The Hindoo populations also adopted it, and traces of the custom may be found in their sacred literature. Thus in the Mahäbhärata the five Pándava brothers marry all together the beautiful Drûaupadi, with eyes of lotus blue (Mahäbhärata, trad. Fauche, t. II. p. 148). For an account of polyandry in ancient India the reader should consult Jolly, Gundriss der Indo-Arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde.