[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.c6.108 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.108 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.108 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c6.108](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.108) Viṣṇu, xv, 7 ff. she is one that has been married for the second time as a virgin, or that has lived with another man before her marriage at law; according to Manu, ix, 175 she is one whose husband has left her, or is dead, and who has married again. Yājñavalkya, i, 67 says : one that is, or is not harmed in her maidenhead, and that lets herself be “ dedicated ” for the second time (cp. Manu, ix, 176). According to Nārada, xii, 45 ff., there are three kinds of punarbhū, of which each is worse than the one following : (1) the girl that has not, indeed, lost her maidenhead, but has lost her honour through an earlier taking by the hand ; (2) a woman that has run off from the husband of her youth, and gone to another, but has afterwards come back to the first husband ; (3) a woman that is given to a sapiṇḍa of the same caste, because there are no brothers-in-law. Elsewhere there are also other interpretations of the term. - [Previous: v1.c6.107](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.107) - [Next: v1.c6.109](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.109) - [Up: v1.c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6) ## Cites (4) - [Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.15.7) — Viṣṇu, Sanskrit - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.9.175) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.1.67) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Nāradasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.narada) — Nārada, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.108](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.108) · Pramāṇa