[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.c16.4 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c16.4 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c16.4 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c16.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c16.4) ³ The woman is often found inheriting her husband's property in spite of many opposed views. The wife inherits the property of the sonless man: Bṛhaspati, xxv, 46-50 (but cp. the partly contradictory provisions, which yet follow immediately thereafter, 53 and 54; they look, indeed, like an interpolation, especially as against 55); Viṣṇu, xvii, 4; Yājñav., ii, 135 f. (= Agnipur., 256.22 f.). Cp. Mahānirvāṇatantra, xii, 23, 27, 28, and the passages quoted in the discussion of the inheritance rights of the maiden, especially the claim of Viṣṇu - [Previous: v2.c16.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c16.3) - [Next: v2.c16.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c16.5) - [Up: v2.c16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c16) ## Linked texts (5) - [Agnipurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni.256.22) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.17.4) — Viṣṇu, Sanskrit - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.2.135) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Mahānirvāṇatantra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.general.sakta.mahanirvana) — Sanskrit - [Bṛhaspatismṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.brhaspati) — Bṛhaspati, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c16.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c16.4) · Pramāṇa