Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture

Women, marriage, love, chastity, motherhood, widows, courtesans and family life in the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa, with extensive translated passages.

Language: English
Date: 1870–1939 CE
Author: Johann Jakob Meyer
Extent: 1,904 passages, 243,974 words
Text: complete digital text
Source: archive.org · English tr., 2 vols., London: Routledge 1930 (German original: Das Weib im altindischen Epos, Leipzig 1915);… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Johann Jakob Meyer †1939); published before 1931:…

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