[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.c15.8 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c15.8 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c15.8 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c15.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.8) Broken utensils and bedsteads, cock and dog, and a tree growing by the house—these are all things bringing misfortune. In broken vessels dwells strife, the saying is, in the bedstead decay of wealth, in the presence of the cock and the dog the gods eat not the sacrificial food, in the root of the tree dwells assuredly a goblin; therefore the tree shall not be planted” (xiii, 127.6, 7, 15, 16). Women that are not troubled by implements and crockery being left about are shunned by the goddess of happiness and beauty; on the other hand, she dwells in and with those that in this and other things live up to the pattern for the woman (xiii, 11.10 ff.).¹ - [Previous: v2.c15.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.7) - [Next: v2.c15.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.9) - [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.13.11.10) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.8) · Pramāṇa