[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.c11.100 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.100 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.100 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c11.100](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.100) Anyone with a knowledge of the sexual ways of the Middle Ages smiles at this meaningly to himself, as also at the words of Schweiger-Lerchenfeld which he regales us with in his description of Indian wedding customs: “The abstinence, too, by the newly wedded couple, for three whole days, has come down to us as a shining symbol from the mists of antiquity with its lofty conceptions of chastity” (\*Die Frauen des Orients\*, p. 591). - [Previous: v2.c11.99](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.99) - [Next: v2.c11.101.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.101.1) - [Up: v2.c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.100](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.100) · Pramāṇa