On 17 October 2016 at 22:48, Artur Karp <karp@uw.edu.pl> wrote:

Dear All,

Should I understand that there are no traces, no mentions of sexual harrasment in the entire - vast - corpus of ancient/medieval Indian literature?

A search for rape as the Text Word in the Puranic Encylopedia under http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/PEScan/2014/web/webtc2/index.php shows up the following:

Rape of Rambhā by Rāvaṇa (VR, UK).

Rape [sic] of Vedavatī by Rāvaṇa (VR, UK). In the VR, it is harassment but not rape. Probably the rape is described in some other R.

Rape of Madanamañjarī by Rāvaṇa (source?)

Rape of Cañcalākṣī by Rāvaṇa (KambaR)

Rape of Arā, daughter of Śukra, by Daṇḍa (VR UK)

Rape of Ugrasena's wife by the Gandharva Dramila (SB, 10th Canto)

Attempt to rape Vinayavatī by Raṅgamālī (Kathāsaritsāgara)

Attempt to rape Pramati by Nala, friend of Sudeva (Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa)