[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.c8.40 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.40 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.40 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c8.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.40) Cp. xiii, 104.89 ; 228.45 ; K, xiii, 211.43 ; 233.50. And for the permitted times, too, the rule holds: "Only in the evening (in the night)!" For the morning belongs to the religious duties, midday to the worldly (artha). Cp. for instance xiii, 22.27 ; vii, 73.38 ff. ; ii, 5.20, and comment. Among the most dreadful sins coition during the day is given in vii, 73.38 ff. ; so also in xiii, 93.121 ; 94.24 ; and in the self-cursing formula of Arjuna, already given (vii, 73.41, 43).¹ - [Previous: v1.c8.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.39) - [Next: v1.c8.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.41) - [Up: v1.c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.2.5.20) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.40) · Pramāṇa