[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.c17.26 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c17.26 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c17.26 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c17.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.26) And what a tender soul and stout heart together is shown, too, by Gāndhārī ! This princess is promised by her kinsfolk to the blind Dhṛtarāṣṭra. She hears of it, and herself ties a cloth about her eyes : “ I will let no dislike towards my husband rise up in me ” (i, 110.9 ff.).¹ A wonderful fineness of feeling and strength of soul is shown by the pearl of all Indian women, Sāvitrī. At her father's bidding she goes forth, filled with shame, to choose herself a husband ; the dreadful fate that lies before her she locks in her heart without a word ; tender and noble, and yet with a hero's strength, she carries everything to a happy ending (iii, 293 ff.). - [Previous: v2.c17.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.25) - [Next: v2.c17.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.27) - [Up: v2.c17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.1.110.9) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.26) · Pramāṇa