[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.c8.42 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.42 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.42 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c8.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.42) But the Epic particularly often stresses the prohibition against a man embracing any woman other than his own wife. This has already been touched on. A few more passages are given here. He who in other things is pious, and is content with his own wife, and does not even in thought covet another woman, wins a glorious lot in the other world, and the same merit even as one that offers a thousand horse-sacrifices (xiii, 107.10, 50 ff.).¹ Subhadrā bewailing her son, says in - [Previous: v1.c8.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.41) - [Next: v1.c8.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.43) - [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.13.107.10) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.42) · Pramāṇa