[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.c13.46 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c13.46 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c13.46 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c13.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.46) take at all after the father, but only after the mother. However, neither the one nor the other of these popular beliefs agrees with the teaching of the Mahābhārata; for since the soul and the karman are bound up with the seed, and thus are contributed by the man, therefore as a necessary consequence the father, and none other, must be responsible for the character of the children, which view as is well known, is Schopenhauer’s.¹ The view, of course, is often found also that for a man’s nature the father and mother must both be taken into account. See e.g. xii, 296.³ f.; Agnipur., 151.18b; Meyer, \*Altind. Rechtsschr.\*, pp. 263-65. - [Previous: v2.c13.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.45) - [Next: v2.c13.47](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.47) - [Up: v2.c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13) ## Linked texts (2) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.12.296.3) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Agnipurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.46) · Pramāṇa