[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.c11.70 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.70 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.70 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c11.70](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.70) ¹ Cp. the prāya (prāyopaveça, dharna) and Billington, 248 ff. Devendra Das, \*Sketches of Hindoo Life\*, 180 f. Tod, \*Rajasthan\*, i, 740-2 ; ii, 182-3 ; 674-7 (here the Bhāts are discussed, who are related to the Kshattriyas, and probably descend from them); Devendra Das, 205 (fakirs light a fire and threaten to burn their arms, if their wish is not fulfilled); and so forth. Cp. Crooke, \*Popul. Relig. and Folkl.\* etc.¹, p. 122 ; Jolly, \*Sitzungsber. d. bayr. Akad.\*, 1877, p. 316; Zachariae in \*Zeitschr. d. Ver. f. Volksk.\*, 1925-1926, p. 149 ff.; E. Thurston, \*Omens and Superstitions of Southern India\* (Lond., 1912), p. 144 f.; Hopkins, JAOS, vol. 21, 2nd half (1900), pp. 146-159; also Āpast.-Dharmas., i, 6, 19.1. For the dharna cp. Schurtz, \*Urgesch. d. Kultur\*, p. 615. - [Previous: v2.c11.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.69) - [Next: v2.c11.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.71) - [Up: v2.c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11) ## Cites (1) - [Āpastambadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.apastamba.1.6.19.1) — Āpastamba, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.70](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.70) · Pramāṇa