[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.c10.34 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c10.34 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c10.34 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c10.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c10.34) \*a. Women (girls) as gifts and fees for sacrifice . . 508\* \*b. Woman (the daughter) given so as to save oneself . 510\* \*c. The yielding up of the daughter or the wife to Brahmans as a highly meritorious deed . . . 511\* \*d. The satisfaction of the guest's needs of sex (through slave-woman, daughter, wife); “the man that overcame death” . . . . . . 512\* \*e. The wife for one's friend . . . . 517\* \*f. The wife as property . . . . . 518\* \*g. The wife's adultery is an offence against property, is therefore punished by the husband . . . 520\* \*h. Rāma's treatment of the supposedly besmirched Sītā . 525\* \*i. Woman, the wife also, can easily be got, is an unimportant object of the senses . . . . 530\* - [Previous: v2.c10.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c10.33) - [Next: v2.c10.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c10.35) - [Up: v2.c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c10.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c10.34) · Pramāṇa