[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.c5.97 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.97 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c5.97 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c5.97](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.97) Be pleased to hear my words. Since she covets all, and is from the root “to covet”, O lovely one, therefore (she) is the “maiden”, the fair-hipped, (and she stands) alone, O lovely-faced one.¹ Thou wilt have done no wrong whatever, fair one. How could I in my love for the world choose a wrong deed! All women and men are without restraint, O lovely-faced one. This is the real nature of mankind, any other is to speak untruly, as the holy tradition teaches. After union with me thou wilt again be a virgin, and thy son will become strong-armed and greatly famed.” Kuntī spoke: “If a son shall come to me from thee, thou scatterer of all darkness, who is decked with ear-rings, clad in armour, a hero, strong-armed and very mighty. . . ”² The sun god spoke: “He will be strong-armed and decked with ear-rings, and wear divine armour. And both, O kind one, will be made for him from the Immortal.”³ Kuntī spoke: “If that is of the Immortal—the two ear-rings, and the splendid harness of my son, whom thou wouldst beget with me—then let my union with thee, O sublime god, come about, as thou hast said. And may he be endowed with thy hero’s strength, thy form, bravery, and power, and with virtue.” The sun god spoke: “Aditi, O queen, has given me ear-rings, thou that art as one drunk; them I will give him, O timid one, and this most excelling armour.” Kuntī spoke: “That is well indeed. I will unite myself with thee, if my son shall be as thou sayest, O lord of the beams.” “Good,” answered the sky-wanderer, Svarbhānu’s foe, joined himself with Kuntī, taking on a magic body, and touched her on the navel. Thereupon the maid swooned, as it were, through - [Previous: v1.c5.96](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.96) - [Next: v1.c5.98](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.98) - [Up: v1.c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.97](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c5.97) · Pramāṇa