[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.c16.19 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c16.19 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c16.19 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c16.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c16.19) ¹ So, e.g. the widows of Droṇa, Drupada, and the still so young Abhimanyu go on quietly living (ix, 23.37 ff.; xi, 25.19; 20.23-28), to say nothing of others. ² Less likely: perished through love. ³ Cp. in the treatment of the surata how the wife of the Brahman eaten by Kalmāshapāda follows him in death (i, 182), and what was said there about the self-burning of Mādrī (p. 233). - [Previous: v2.c16.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c16.18) - [Next: v2.c16.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c16.20) - [Up: v2.c16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c16) ## Linked texts (2) - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.9.23.37) — Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c16.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c16.19) · Pramāṇa