[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.c8.60 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.60 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.60 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c8.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.60) In the Epic, intercourse with the teacher's wife is often marked out as peculiarly shameful. Such a sinner is reincarnated as one without manly powers (xiii, 145.53; see also xiii, 111.64 ff., and cp. Manu, xi, 49; xii, 58). The atoning punishment here is as follows: "He that stains (gurutalpin) the teacher's bed shall seat himself on a glowing iron plate (çilām taptām ayasīm),¹ cut off his own member, and go away with uplifted eyes. Freed from his body, he is freed from his - [Previous: v1.c8.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.59) - [Next: v1.c8.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.61) - [Up: v1.c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8) ## Linked texts (2) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.11.49) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.13.145) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.60) · Pramāṇa