[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.c14.13 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c14.13 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c14.13 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c14.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.13) \*Note in Proof.\*¹—The well-known article by Ling Roth in the \*Journal of the Roy. Anthropol. Inst.\*, vol. xxii, p. 204 ff., was deliberately not read by me till the last, so that I might not be influenced by it. But unfortunately I only saw it after sending off my MS. He brings forward a good many cases where the welfare of the child is given as the reason of the couvade (pp. 209-11, 214 f., 217 f., 219 ff.). This standpoint has therefore undoubtedly not been without influence. The man's lying-in is found neither among the lowest, nor among the civilized peoples (of to-day) (p. 222). The Australians living under mother-right believe that the child really comes only from the father (225 f.). Mother-right and Couvade are met with together among the Arawaks, and in Melanesia (227; cp. 238 f.). - [Previous: v2.c14.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.12) - [Next: v2.c14.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.14) - [Up: v2.c14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c14.13) · Pramāṇa