[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.c6.14 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.14 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.14 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c6.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.14) Likewise when Arjuna wedded Kṛṣṇa’s sister, Kṛṣṇa made magnificent gifts. “To them (the Pāṇḍavas) Kṛṣṇa, he in high renown, gave very great wealth because of the kinship through marriage,¹ the marriage-portion (haraṇa) of Subhadrā, the gift to the kinsfolk. A thousand chariots with golden fittings, wreathed in numberless bells, four-horsed, with skilled and tried drivers, did the glorious Kṛṣṇa give, and a myriad of cows from the neighbourhood of Madhurā, rich in milk, shining fair. And a thousand thoroughbred² mares, that shone there like the moon's (white) beam, and were decked with gold, Janārdana gave out of love, as also, to each, five hundred³ well-trained, wind-swift, black-maned white she-mules.⁴ A thousand women the lotus-eyed one gave (them)—light-skinned,⁵ clad in fair raiment, shining splendidly, decked with hundreds of gold ornaments on their necks, free of body-hair, well cared for, and skilled to serve, skilful at the bath, at the drinking, and at festivals, and endowed with youth. And a hundred thousand saddle-horses from Bāhli did Janārdana give (Subhadrā), as an all-surpassing morning-gift (kanyādhana), and of the best worked and unworked gold, gleaming like fire, - [Previous: v1.c6.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.13) - [Next: v1.c6.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.15) - [Up: v1.c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6) ## Cites (3) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.1.144.7) — Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki) — Vālmīki, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.14) · Pramāṇa