[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.c11.102 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.102 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.102 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c11.102](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.102) Now Kīcaka, who in spite of his coxcombry, was a stout warrior, as K. at least, proves in a special chapter on his descent and doughty deeds, does indeed show a certain romanticism in his passion of love, anyhow in his relations with Draupadī; for as she herself shows him clearly, it means a sacrificing of his own advantage that he should want to make her, the unclean waiting-woman, his wife. Otherwise, however, he is evidently a typical representative of a class of - [Previous: v2.c11.101.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.101.4) - [Next: v2.c11.103](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.103) - [Up: v2.c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.102](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.102) · Pramāṇa