[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.c11.28 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.28 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.28 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c11.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.28) poem : “Der Fürst ritt auf die Jagd” in his \*Weisheit des Brahmanen\*; Bulloram Mullick, \*Home Life in Bengal\*, p. 24 f.; Temple, \*Legends of the Panjab\*, i, 264; Ward, \*View of the Hindoos\*⁵, 273; Divyāvad., p. 435 (cp. Jāt. Nos. 334, 520); Cardonne, \*Mélanges\*, p. 89 ff.; Crooke, \*North-Western Provinces of India\*, p. 170; etc. From the MBh. some of the passages are : i, 64.15, 16; 68, especially 10; 105.44; 109.¹ ff.; ii, 13.14 ff.; 33.1 ff.; 38.27-29; iii, 185; 207.28 ff.; iv, 28.15 ff.; 132.15 ff.; v, 147.25 ff.; xii, 29.51 ff.; 69.75 ff.; 91.9; 141.9, 10; 223.5 ff.; xiii, 62.43 f. The Old Indian king, too, does not know better : In the kingdom of the Kalingas there is a heavy drought; everything is ruined. The people make complaint to the ruler, who then says : “I will make the god rain,” and gives himself up to good works. But as this is no good, King Vessantara’s state-elephant is asked for; where it comes, there it rains (Jāt., vi, p. 487).—To tat we can add puram. Or the liter. transl. might be : Hence it became (or : It became) in this way like the city filled with ghosts, etc. - [Previous: v2.c11.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.27) - [Next: v2.c11.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.29) - [Up: v2.c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11) ## Linked texts (3) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.1.64.15) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka) — Pāli - [Divyāvadāna](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.avadana.divyavadana) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.28) · Pramāṇa