[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.c6.71 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.71 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c6.71 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c6.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.71) Pāṇḍu, himself prevented from the use of his manly powers, bewails in i, 120 his being condemned to unhappiness in this world and the next, because he has no son; he exhorts his wife Kuntī to see to it that this be made otherwise, and goes on to say: “Therefore do I now send thee, being myself deprived of begetting. Do thou win offspring from one that is equal to me, or better than I. Hearken, O Kuntī, to this tale of Ṣāradaṇḍāyinī. This heroic wife was charged (niyukta) by her husband to get a son. She now went, having had her period, with pure and holy mind, having bathed (on the fourth day); she went in the night to a cross-road, and picked out a Brahman that had come to perfection (dvijam siddham), after she had made sacrifice to the fire god to get a son. And when - [Previous: v1.c6.70](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.70) - [Next: v1.c6.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.72) - [Up: v1.c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6) ## Cites (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c6.71) · Pramāṇa