Dubois dismisses Puranic narratives as 'a mere tissue of contradictions' and 'absurd details,' then selectively foregrounds sexual content ('abominable amours') as the only point of coherence. This is a classic atrocity literature move: the observer claims to have surveyed the whole textual tradition, finds nothing but incoherence, and then presents moral scandal as the one legible thread. The rhetoric simultaneously delegitimises the texts as scripture and weaponises them as evidence of moral corruption.