[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.c15.9 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c15.9 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c15.9 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c15.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.9) ¹ Cp. Mārk.-Pur., l, 86: Where utensils are strewn about the house there dwell ill-boding powers; Viṣṇusmṛti, xxv, 4 ff., and Yājñav., i, 83: Women must keep the pots and pans and the household things in good order. If they do this, and are otherwise virtuous and have sons, then the goddess of happiness dwells ever with and in them (Viṣṇusmṛti, xcix, 21 ff.). “Indian houses are kept beautifully clean,” Fuller, \*Studies of Indian Life\*, etc., p. 151. - [Previous: v2.c15.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.8) - [Next: v2.c15.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.10) - [Up: v2.c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15) ## Linked texts (3) - [Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.markandeya.50.86) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.25.4) — Viṣṇu, Sanskrit - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.1.83) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c15.9) · Pramāṇa