[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.c8.9 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.9 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c8.9 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.9) ¹ No wonder that the genius of digestion, Agastya (Wilson’s Vishṇup., iii, p. 128) shows such an overflowing health. As among the peasants in Zola’s \*La terre\*, and elsewhere in the world, things all go their good way amid this blessed noise as the body is thus eased, so, too, the Indian sees in it a token of food well taken and of the favour of the gods, and, in fact, of general present and future happiness. See Dubois-Beauchamp ³, p. 329 ; Schmidt, \*Liebe u. Ehe in Indien\*, p. 397 ; E. Thurston, \*Omens\*, etc. (1912), p. 26. - [Previous: v1.c8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.8) - [Next: v1.c8.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.10) - [Up: v1.c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v1.c8.9) · Pramāṇa