[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) › v2.c10.30 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c10.30 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c10.30 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c10.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c10.30) PAGE \*a.\* Her share in important things . . . . 464 \*b.\* Women's rule in the state . . . . 465 \*c.\* The wife goes, too, to the fight, the hunt, etc. . 466 \*d.\* Woman and the festival : amusements and diversions of the women . . . . . . 467 \*e.\* Women's journeyings . . . . . 470 \*f.\* The harem or polygamy :— (i) Polygamy is right for the man, wrong for the woman 471 (ii) Duties of the man with many wives (the partial moon) . . . . . . 471 (iii) The passed-over wife of the polygamist (Kauçalyā, Devayānī and her son) . . . . 473 (iv) Enmity between wives . . . . 474 (v) The sorrow of the wife when another is taken . 476 (vi) Harem life in town and camp . . . 478 \*g.\* The watch over women, and how but one in the world has been kept from evil by another man . . 480 \*h.\* The treatment of woman :— (i) She must be lovingly cherished and cared for by the man . . . . . . 486 (ii) The husband must not let himself be kept by the wife 487 (iii) The dreadfulness of woman-slaying . . 487 (iv) The woman must not be beaten, handled badly, nor forced . . . . . . 489 (v) On lying to women and deceiving them . . 490 (vi) Various rules for behaviour towards women . 492 (vii) The woman in sulks . . . . 494 - [Previous: v2.c10.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c10.29) - [Next: v2.c10.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c10.31) - [Up: v2.c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c10.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c10.30) · Pramāṇa