[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.c14.12 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c14.12 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c14.12 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c14.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.12) unclean, far more than round the mother or the child; for, as a man, he seems so immeasurably more important, in the eyes of the ghostly powers also, than the wretched worthless woman. The man's child-bed is probably, anyhow where it is bound up with torments of any kind, at the same time a magical matter, and bestows charmed and magic strength. And probably it makes a part of the magical homœopathy of primitive man. - [Previous: v2.c14.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.10) - [Next: v2.c14.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.13) - [Up: v2.c14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.12) · Pramāṇa