[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.c12.19 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c12.19 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c12.19 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c12.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c12.19) ¹ In a literal translation çl. 9 is perhaps to be thus combined with what is before: (heavy, compared, that is to say, with that) which good women do who lead a good life, and are ever attentive. Or less likely, taken together with 9b: what . . . do, they have a heavy task therewith towards father and mother. Kṛi with the accus. of the person = do, do towards, treat, handle, is often found in the Epic. So vi, 79.6; vi, 64.16 f.; vii, 21.1; viii, 68.23; xii, 175.5; Rām., iv, 5.30; cp. MBh., vii, 12.3; Rām., iv, 18.47: tatrāpi khalu mām dosham kartum nārḥasi, Rāghava “therein also thou must see no blame for me”. - [Previous: v2.c12.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c12.18) - [Next: v2.c12.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c12.20) - [Up: v2.c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c12) ## Linked texts (2) - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.6.64.16) — Sanskrit - [Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki) — Vālmīki, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c12.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c12.19) · Pramāṇa