[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.c17.25 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c17.25 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c17.25 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c17.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.25) SĪTĀ is wholly the Indian ideal of a woman : tender and mild, soft and dreamy as moonlight, self-forgetting, filled with love, devotion, sincerity, faithfulness, and yet, where it is a case of defending womanly virtue, nobility of soul, and purity of body, a strong heroine, great above all in long-suffering, but great, too, in her unyielding, daring pride. - [Previous: v2.c17.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.24) - [Next: v2.c17.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.26) - [Up: v2.c17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.25) · Pramāṇa