[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.c15.4 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c15.4 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c15.4 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c15.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.4) A kind of beatification of the housewife wrapped up in her cooking is given in ix, 48.33 ff. Arundhatī, the companion of one of the seven Ṛiṣhis, and so famous for her wifely faithfulness, likewise stood out by her asceticism. A twelve years’ drought came on them. Then Çiva, gladdened by Arundhatī’s piety, came there in Brahman’s shape, said he was hungry, and begged for alms. “The food is used up, O Brahman; eat these badara-fruit” (the fruit of the jujube-tree). “Cook them.” She now cooked and cooked the fruit for twelve years, and while she was so busied, and meanwhile listening to the heavenly discourse and tales of the guest, the drought went by : twelve years had gone by her without her marking it, and she had not - [Previous: v2.c15.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.3) - [Next: v2.c15.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.5) - [Up: v2.c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.9.48) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.4) · Pramāṇa