On Impregnating Someone Else's Wife...

I gave class at the local temple on this subject the other morning. Srimad Bhagavatam 9.14 contains the story of Soma's kidnapping the wife of Brhaspati and impregnating her.

I discussed the difference between the treatment of this issue in the Bhagavatam and the Manu-samhita. There wasn't really enough time to develop that theme, but we introduced it at least. Prahlad made a couple of comments, and we closed on a good note.

Here's the class if you'd like to hear it:

• Impregnating Other's Wives mp3, 21MB

And here's the video that I mentioned in the class, showing how impregnating other people's wives is a common occurrence - common enough to appear in popular comedy, universal history, and civil legal code.