[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.c11.96 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.96 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c11.96 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c11.96](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.96) ² With our tale compare above all Holtzmann, \*Das Mahābhārata u. seine Teile\*, iv, 98; Daçakumāracar., p. 172 ff. (Pushpodbhava’s adventure), espec. 176 ff., and my note on p. 178; Daçāvatāracar., viii, 555 (a woman may have Gandharvas as husbands; these then kill any man touching her); Weber’s \*Ind. Studien\*, xv, 337 (in the Simhāsanadvātriṃç., a Rākshasa even lays hold of a surpassingly lovely hetæra); Kuṭṭanīmatam, 347 (a demon has a woman in his possession and slays her lover). Daṇḍin’s tale is assuredly not unconnected with the Kīcakaparvan. - [Previous: v2.c11.95](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.95) - [Next: v2.c11.97](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.97) - [Up: v2.c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11) ## Linked texts (4) - [Kuṭṭanīmata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vaisika.kuttanimata.347) — Dāmodaragupta, Sanskrit - [Daśakumāracarita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.novels.prasiddha.dasakumaracarita) — Daṇḍin, Sanskrit - [Siṃhāsanadvātriṃśikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.short_stories.vikrama.simhasana) — Sanskrit - [Daśāvatāracarita](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.vaisnava.dasavataracarita) — Kṣemendra, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.96](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c11.96) · Pramāṇa