[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.c13.39 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c13.39 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c13.39 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c13.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.39) told : " After the fifth month the fœtus has all its limbs; through the strength of the wind it is driven to the mother-gate (yonidvāra) and born, with the legs up, the head down " (xi, 4.2 ff.). xii, 320.17, therefore, should probably, instead of " After the ninth month is fulfilled, name and form comes into being, etc.," which indeed sounds strange, be translated : " When the child after the ninth month is fulfilled has been born, then its individuality becomes known, whether it is a boy or a girl, according to the marks of sex." Jāyate therefore = comes to light (or perhaps is to be altogether changed to jñāyate); hardly: " it is born into individuality (or even : the phenomenal world)," although jāyate with such an accusative would not be un-Epic. - [Previous: v2.c13.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.38) - [Next: v2.c13.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.40) - [Up: v2.c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.39) · Pramāṇa