[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.c5.3 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.3 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.3 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.3) a. The woman's joy and vigour in the pleasures of love . . 229 b. Punishment for disturbing the surata (death during the sexual embrace) . . . . . . . 233 c. The joys of love as a healing herb . . . . 238 d. Means for heightening the powers and heroes in strength of love 239 e. Uncleanness of the surata . . . . . . 240 f. Regulation of the pleasures of sex (not in public, not outside the vulva, not by day or at certain other times, not with another woman than the wife) . . . . . 241 g. Punishments awaiting the lewd man in this life and in the other . . . . . . . . 246 h. The dreadfulness of intercourse with the teacher's wife or with a woman of higher caste . . . . . 251 i. Other details: not to look on a naked stranger woman, atonement for nightly pollution, a thoughtful hero of chastity, etc. . . . . . . . . 256 - [Previous: v1.c5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.2) - [Next: v1.c5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.4) - [Up: v1.c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.3) · Pramāṇa