[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.c8.71 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.71 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.71 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c8.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.71) (sagotrā), a begging nun (pravrajitā). Viṣṇu, xxxvi, 4 ff.; Yājñav., iii, 231 ff. So, too, intercourse with a woman-ascetic is in Nārada, xii, 73 held to be the same as incest (contrariwise Kauṭilya (transl.), 364.12 ff. and Yājñav., ii, 293 in this case have only a 24 paṇa fine. Cp. Kauṭilya 364.35 ff.; and Manu, viii, 363). That incest, which is given a very wide meaning, can only be wiped out through death by fire, castration, expulsion from the caste, and the like is easily understood. See Bühler’s Manu, xi, 171, and the parallels there given, as also Āpast., i, 7, 21.8; Nārada, xii, 73 ff.; Viṣṇu, xxxiv; Parāçara, x, 9-11; Agnipur., 173.47 ff. Cp. Meyer, Kauṭilya, 263.31 ff. and addit. Violating the teacher’s marriage-bed (gurutalpa) and incest are often in other places not kept apart, which is very natural. Among the four great deadly sins the gurutalpa is always found. - [Previous: v1.c8.70](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.70) - [Next: v1.c8.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.72) - [Up: v1.c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8) ## Linked texts (8) - [Agnipurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni.173.47) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.36.4) — Viṣṇu, Sanskrit - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.8.363) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Āpastambadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.apastamba.1.7.21.8) — Āpastamba, Sanskrit - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.3.231) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Parāśarasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.parasara.10.9) — Parāśara, Sanskrit - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit - [Nāradasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.narada) — Nārada, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.71) · Pramāṇa