[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.c11.21 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.21 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.21 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c11.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.21) ¹ I read asphuṭan (instead of asphuṭan) and take it as transitive. Intransitive verbs are often used in the Epic as transitive (causative). See, e.g., i, 92.7; 139.26; 153.29; iii, 40.19; 192.54; iv, 1.25; v, 75.12; vii, 79.31; xii, 242.23; 269.45, 68; 287.11; xiii, 164.2; Rām., iv, 66.7; vi, 114.28. K (189.10) has the straightforward reading aspṛiṣan : without touching (wetting) (the king’s diadem). Ākarshan would likewise be clear. Nil. says: “With the other reading the meaning is clear.” But he does not say which. His interpretation does not agree with mine. - [Previous: v2.c11.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.20) - [Next: v2.c11.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.22) - [Up: v2.c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11) ## Cites (3) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.1.92.7) — Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki) — Vālmīki, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.21) · Pramāṇa