[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.c8.80 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.80 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.80 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c8.80](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.80) to a woman (avakirṇin), then according to MBh., xii, 24 he must be clad for six months in an ox-skin and carry out the penance of the Brahman-murderer, and also in xii, 34.¹ ff. his name is given along with the slayer of a man of the priestly class and other wicked evil-doers, and prāyaçcitta (atonement) is imposed on him. Cp. v, 38.4. According to the law writings he gets cleansed again by sacrificing in the night at a cross-ways to Nirṛiti (goddess of corruption) a (one-eyed) ass. The sinner must put on the ass’s skin with the hair outside, and (with a red begging-bowl) beg at seven houses, making known his deed. (He must eat only once a day, and bathe in the morning, at midday, and in the evening.) Besides this other offerings and atonement rites are also given. Baudhāyana, ii, 1.29-34; iii, 4; iv, 2.10 f.; Āpast., i, 9, 26.8; Vasiṣṭha, xxiii, 1-3; Manu, xi, 119-124; Yājñav., iii, 280; Viṣṇu, xxviii, 48 ff.; Gautama, xxiii, 17-19; xxv, 1-5; Pārask.-Gṛihyas., iii, 12.1 ff.; Agnipur., 169.15b-18a (essentially = Manu, xi, 119 ff.). Any other self-polluter comes off lightly (bathing, Viṣṇu, liii, 4, etc.; to say the Gāyatrī a thousand times, and three times to hold the breath \[prāṇāyāma\] in Parāçara, xii, 63; and so on). Cp. Baudh., iii, 7.1-7; iv, 2.13; Āpast., i, 9, 26.7; Manu, xi, 174; Viṣṇu, liii, 4; Gaut., xxv, 7. - [Previous: v1.c8.79](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.79) - [Next: v1.c8.81](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.81) - [Up: v1.c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8) ## Linked texts (11) - [Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.28.48) — Viṣṇu, Sanskrit - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.11.174) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Baudhāyanadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.baudhayana.3.4) — Baudhāyana, Sanskrit - [Āpastambadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.apastamba.1.9.26.8) — Āpastamba, Sanskrit - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.3.280) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Gautamadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.gautama.25.7) — Gautama (dharmasūtrakāra), Sanskrit - [Pāraskaragṛhyasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.grhya.paraskara.3.12.1) — Pāraskara, Sanskrit - [Parāśarasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.parasara.12.63) — Parāśara, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.12.24) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Agnipurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vasiṣṭhadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vasistha) — Vasiṣṭha, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.80](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.80) · Pramāṇa