[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.c7.59 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c7.59 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c7.59 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c7.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7.59) ¹ For the sake of offspring was the coitus made. K. i, 107.21. ² This belief, spread over the whole earth, has its place, too, in the Old Indian marriage-songs, and in the wedding ritual (Çāṅkhy.-Grihy., i, 16, 2 ff.; 18, 2 ff.; Pārask., i, 11 ; Hirany., i, 6, 20.2 ; 7, 24). - [Previous: v1.c7.58](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7.58) - [Next: v1.c7.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7.60) - [Up: v1.c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7) ## Linked texts (4) - [Śāṅkhāyanagṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.sankhayana.1.16.2) — Śāṅkhāyana, Sanskrit - [Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.1.11) — Pāraskara, Sanskrit - [Hiraṇyakeśigṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.hiranyakesi.1.6.20.2) — Hiraṇyakeśin, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.1.107.21) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c7.59) · Pramāṇa