[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915) › v1.c5.296 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.296 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.296 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c5.296](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.296) Then from her lips comes a splendid song of praise for family happiness (a rendering of part of which will be given later), and she ends with a lament that her mother had already forsaken her as a child, and now her husband was repudiating her, and she was in the world with no kinsfolk. But the king upbraids her as a bad woman, sneers at her declaration that she is Viçvāmitra’s daughter, and jeeringly says that her evil-living mother, Menakā, has picked her up, the evil-living daughter, somewhere else. “All whereof thou speakest is unknown to me; I know thee not; go thy ways, wherever thou choosest.” Majestically Çakuntalā speaks: - [Previous: v1.c5.295](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.295) - [Next: v1.c5.297](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.297) - [Up: v1.c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.296](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.296) · Pramāṇa