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 and wedding "the Lord of the Universe," plans for him a nocturnal adventure from which he is supposed to return incognito before dawn; or when unbridled eagerness, toiling to scale the heights of Indra's blissful abode, not only marks its progress with holocausts of dumb victims but terminates in a deed of sanctimonious sin that no system of morality dare justify. Celibacy, that self-forgetfulnes in the service of the Lord, degenerates into a social fiction, till a vestal deva-dasi is replaced by a shame-proof demi - monde,* and