[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.c11.124 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.124 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.124 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c11.124](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.124) Thus, too, we find it given as the pride of the earthly warrior, and the picture of mortal man’s glory “ to press the breasts of loving women, to make gifts, and to slay foes ” (viii, 83.23 ; 94.46, 47). So Bhūriçrava’s wife, when bewailing the dead man, boasts thus of his hand that Arjuna has shot away : “ This is the hand which slew heroes, and gave security to friends, which gave thousands of cows, and dealt death to - [Previous: v2.c11.123](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.123) - [Next: v2.c11.125](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.125) - [Up: v2.c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11) ## Linked texts (2) - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.8.83.23) — Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.124](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.124) · Pramāṇa