[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.c12.37 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c12.37 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c12.37 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c12.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c12.37) But above all it is of course in the beyond that the faithful wife is rewarded. She goes into the world of her husband (xiv, 20.4); there are, indeed, various worlds, the highest heavens of the pious, that are seen only by Brahma, holy Rishis, Brahmans with a pure spirit, and faithful wives, and which are for ever shut even to the eyes of the king of the gods (xiii, 73.² ff.). Nay, more: Far away beyond the heaven of those that are absorbed in holy meditation (brahmasattrim) lies the world of faithful wives; beyond that again lies only the formless, the domain of ultimate being. ix, 50.41-48. - [Previous: v2.c12.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c12.36) - [Next: v2.c12.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c12.38) - [Up: v2.c12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c12) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.14.20.4) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c12.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c12.37) · Pramāṇa