[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.c8.76 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.76 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.76 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c8.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.76) ² Cp. Manu, ii, 181 f.; Gaut., xxiii, 20; Viṣṇu, xxviii, 51 (and the parallels in Jolly's transl.); Yājñav., iii, 278; Baudhāyana, ii, 1.28 (= ii, 1, 1.29). Onanism is also of course punished. Of special importance is this in the case of the brahmacārin (the disciple bound to chastity). According to Vasiṣṭha, xxiii, 4 this offence must be atoned for in just the same way as the Veda-learner's intercourse with a woman. Cp. Manu, ii, 180. But if the brahmacārin goes - [Previous: v1.c8.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.75) - [Next: v1.c8.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.77) - [Up: v1.c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8) ## Linked texts (7) - [Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.28.51) — Viṣṇu, Sanskrit - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.2.181) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Baudhāyanadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.baudhayana.2.1) — Baudhāyana, Sanskrit - [Vasiṣṭhadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vasistha.23.4) — Vasiṣṭha, Sanskrit - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.3.278) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Gautamadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.gautama.23.20) — Gautama (dharmasūtrakāra), Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.12.34.26) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.76) · Pramāṇa