[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.c11.175 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.175 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.175 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c11.175](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.175) ¹ That is to say, of course, through the mind, the ear, the mouth (the tongue), and the eye, all of which have a share in the beloved being. We miss the smell, and the most important sense of all for love : sparça, the touch, the sense of feeling. K. (25.5) then adds : "and is born, too, from the touch, and is born, too, from the smell."—As to saṃkalpa "idea, conception" cp. p. 309 of my Daçakum., as also MBh., iii, 298.36; xiv, 22.20, 27; Nil. on xii, 248.1. With the riddle set in Daçakum., 297, 306 ff., and the tale itself: "Love is an idea," may be compared: Avacyakaerzählungen, ed. Leumann, i, p. 26; Prabandhacintāmaṇi, p. 80, and Tawney's note; Stricker, Das Bloch (ed. Lambel in the Deutsche Klassiker des Mittelalters, Bd. xii, p. 103 ff. = Hagen, Gesamtabenteuer, ii, 171 ff.); Bandello, i, 22; F. T. Vischer, Auch Einer ³, Bd. ii, p. 227; Novalis (ed. Heilborn, 1901); H. von Ofterdingen, p. 139 ("Where is love? In the imagination"); Chauvin, vi, 15; Zeitschr. d. Vereins f. Volksk., vol. ii, p. 300. - [Previous: v2.c11.174](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.174) - [Next: v2.c11.176](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.176) - [Up: v2.c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11) ## Cites (2) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.3.298.36) — Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.175](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.175) · Pramāṇa