[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.c11.83 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.83 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.83 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c11.83](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.83) ² In K. she expresses herself far more emphatically still. There among other things she cries out (22.45 ff.): “Be thou my stay; I do not wish to turn to Yudh., the man without strength of will, without the passion of revenge (amarsha), without manhood. Oh! may no woman bear such a son! . . . As the rutting lord of the herd, the sixty year old elephant, tramples with his feet on the bilva-fruit fallen to the ground, and squashes it, so do thou, O man-tiger, pound in fragments Kīcaka’s skull, after thou hast flung him to the ground. If Kīcaka rises to-morrow morning, and when the night has grown light \[accus. absol. çarvarīṃ vyushṭām, as, for instance, in v, 194.2; vi, 3.35; 60.1; vii, 74.46; 76.27; 29.44; ix, 30.21, like the not unfrequent prabhātām çarvarīṃ\], sees the rising sun, then I can no longer live. . . . And put the blame on thine eldest brother, the evil dice-player, through whose fault I have been brought to this boundless sorrow. But they, whose head and eldest is a shameful stain on his family, will probably, as men of humble spirit, follow after their excellent brother.” - [Previous: v2.c11.82](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.82) - [Next: v2.c11.84](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.84) - [Up: v2.c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.5.194.2) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.83](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.83) · Pramāṇa