[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.c13.43 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c13.43 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c13.43 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c13.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.43) ¹ According to Agnipur., 369.31-32; 370.19b-20a, from the mother comes heart, skin, flesh, colour, navel, mucus, fat, belly, pancreas, and the black of the eye; but from the father: veins, arteries, nerves, seed, etc., as also the white of the eye. Carakas., iv, 3, 5.1, is partly different. See espec. Jolly, Medizin, p. 55 middle, and cp. here, as for the whole chapter, R. Schmidt, Liebe u. Ehe in Indien, 489 ff. - [Previous: v2.c13.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.42) - [Next: v2.c13.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.44) - [Up: v2.c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13) ## Linked texts (2) - [Agnipurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni.369.31) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Carakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.caraka.4.3.5) — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.43) · Pramāṇa