[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.c11.94 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.94 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.94 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c11.94](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.94) They laid hold of her and dragged her with them to the place of the burning to give her to the flames along with the lover, and so do him a loving service even in death. Loudly she cried out for help, and Bhīma leaped over the wall, and fell on the Sūtas, tearing up a mighty tree, and swinging it as a weapon. In terror the men let the girl go, and fled before the supposed Gandharva. But he killed a hundred and five, “this made with Kīcaka a hundred and six.” Filled with fear and terror they now importuned the king to take all care lest his kingdom should fall a prey to destruction; for the Gandharvas, they said, were so strong, and the waiting-maid too fair; and such a lovely object for the senses attracted men all too strongly to the pleasures of love. Virāṭa now exhorts his wife to send away the waiting-maid, saying he could not tell her for fear of the Gandharvas,¹ while a woman would not come by any harm if she did it. Meanwhile Draupadī came home again, and the girls, who were being taught by Arjuna disguised as a eunuch, came out and congratulated her; but the queen asked the dangerous one to go away. Draupadī begged to be allowed to stop another thirteen days (iv, 14-24).² - [Previous: v2.c11.93](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.93) - [Next: v2.c11.95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.95) - [Up: v2.c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11) ## Cites (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.94](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.94) · Pramāṇa