[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.c13.68 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c13.68 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c13.68 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c13.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.68) change come about as in the MBh., but tells of another cause why Çiva laid this spell: Once he was visited by pious Ṛiṣis, who found his wife naked in his arms. She was very much ashamed, and therefore the god thus spoke for her sake: “Whoso comes into the forest shall become a woman.” In the two sections of the Purāṇa Manu through a mistake of the sacrificing priest gets a daughter, Ilā, instead of a son; through special favour she becomes a man, named Sudyumna, and he then becomes a woman through the power of the god, etc. Cp. Harivamça, x, 615 ff.; Crooke, Pop. Rel., ii, 7. - [Previous: v2.c13.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.67) - [Next: v2.c13.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.69) - [Up: v2.c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13) ## Linked texts (1) - [Harivaṃśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c13.68) · Pramāṇa