[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.c5.351 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.351 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.351 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c5.351](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.351) ¹ There, indeed, the “beauteous maidens grow on trees”, and all live only for the pleasures of love, as the Epic, too, relates (see, for instance, Rām., ii, 91.19; iv, 43.37 ff.). \[From Melanesia for plants turning into women cp. G. C. Wheeler, Mono-Alu Folklore (London, 1926), pp. 25-6 (Translator).\] - [Previous: v1.c5.350](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.350) - [Next: v1.c5.352](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.352) - [Up: v1.c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.351](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.351) · Pramāṇa