[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.c8.88 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.88 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.88 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c8.88](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.88) ³ Mahārti. Cp. in my translation of Kshemendra's Samayamātṛkā, p. 59, note 1; MBh., iii, 46.44; Divyāvadāna (ed. Cowell and Neil), pp. 254, 255 (kleça and roga = hot desire); Dāmodaragupta's Kuṭṭanimatam in my transl., pp. 59, 131. There vyādhi is anyhow = hot desire. With kaṇḍū in the same passage cp. the Finnish kutku, itching = hot desire. - [Previous: v1.c8.87](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.87) - [Next: v1.c8.89](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.89) - [Up: v1.c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8) ## Linked texts (3) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.3.46) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Divyāvadāna](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.divyavadana) — Sanskrit - [Kuṭṭanīmata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.kuttanimata) — Dāmodaragupta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.88](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.88) · Pramāṇa