[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.c15.2 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c15.2 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c15.2 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c15.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.2) ¹ On the spiteful ill-nature of this "holy man with the purified soul" besides what has been already told and our passage see especially iii, 262.7-15; xiii, 159. In hotness of temper his no less pious brother-hermit Bhūti may be compared with him: in Bhūti's hermitage the wind therefore did not dare to blow strongly, the sun to shine hotly, the rain to cause any dirt; even the water he drew in his pitcher was afraid of him. Mārkaṇḍeyapur., xcix, 2 ff. Cp. MBh., iii, 110.9 ff. Durvāsas was, however, in our case put up to it by Duryodhana (iii, 262.16 ff.). - [Previous: v2.c15.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.1) - [Next: v2.c15.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.3) - [Up: v2.c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15) ## Linked texts (2) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.3.110.9) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.2) · Pramāṇa