[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.c6.20 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.20 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.20 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c6.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.20) loads for ten men. But Rāma, the plough-bearer (Kṛṣṇa's elder brother Baladeva), the lover of pert, bold deeds, joyfully gave Arjuna as wedding-gift (pāṇigrahaṇika), to honour the union, a thousand rutting elephants, streaming three-fold rutting-sap,¹ like unto mountain-tops, and fleeing not in the battle, harnessed, hung with loud-ringing bells, splendid, wreathed with gold, furnished with drivers" (i, 221.44 ff.).² According to the commentary, Rām., 39.2 and 66.4 alludes to a custom not without its charm : at the wedding of Sītā with Rāma her father takes a jewel out of (or, from ?) the hand of her mother and hands it to the father of her bridegroom for the latter to fasten it on her as a head-ornament. - [Previous: v1.c6.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.19) - [Next: v1.c6.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.21) - [Up: v1.c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6) ## Cites (2) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.1.221.44) — Sanskrit - [Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki) — Vālmīki, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.20) · Pramāṇa