[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.c7.28 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c7.28 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c7.28 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c7.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7.28) ¹ According to Manu, viii, 317 ; Vasisṭha, xix, 44, the adulteress casts off her sin onto the husband ; he should have kept her from it. ² The very expression ātmānam dadau does not seem at all to allow of a reference to the son she has borne him. ³ Liter. : suggestion, reference, hint. On this conception cp. Freidank's \*Bescheidenheit\* ed. Bezzenberger, p. 158 : Swâ wîp, etc. ⁴ Probably not so well : the whole assemblage, etc., comes into the mother. ⁵ Or : If a man is told : “ I am at thy bidding,” then he (in the world, anyhow) will show his inclination. This version is after all - [Previous: v1.c7.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7.27) - [Next: v1.c7.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7.29) - [Up: v1.c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7.28) · Pramāṇa