[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.c11.142 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.142 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.142 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c11.142](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.142) p. 325; Pārvatīpariṇ., iii, 6). A pleasant womanly impression also is made by the custom of putting flowers, especially lotus-flowers and those of the sahakāra-mango, in the intoxicating drink (Kāvyā-darça, ii, 157; Kirāt., ix, 56; Çiçup., viii, 52; x, 1, 3, 5, 8, 11; xv, 12; Rāvaṇavaha, xii, 14). Flowers and shoots, indeed, keep evil away, and bring good, e.g. ii, 21.51. - [Previous: v2.c11.141](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.141) - [Next: v2.c11.143](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.143) - [Up: v2.c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11) ## Linked texts (6) - [Śiśupālavadha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.krsna.sisupalavadha.8.52) — Māgha, Sanskrit - [Setubandha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.prakrit.setubandha.12.14) — Pravarasena II, Māhārāṣṭrī Prakrit - [Kirātārjunīya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.bharata.kiratarjuniya.9.56) — Bhāravi, Sanskrit - [Kāvyādarśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.sahitya.kavyadarsa.2.157) — Daṇḍin, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.2.21) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Pārvatīpariṇaya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.plays.purana.parvatiparinaya.3.6) — Vāmanabhaṭṭa Bāṇa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.142](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.142) · Pramāṇa