[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.c17.6 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c17.6 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c17.6 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c17.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.6) Cp. Nitivākyāmrita, 103.7–8. This idea is perhaps best known to us from Chamisso’s poem, where the dead child comes to the weeping mother, and amid other things reminds her as follows:— - [Previous: v2.c17.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.5) - [Next: v2.c17.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.7) - [Up: v2.c17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17) ## Linked texts (1) - [Nītivākyāmṛta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.nitivakyamrta) — Somadevasūri, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c17.6) · Pramāṇa