[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.c18.26 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c18.26 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c18.26 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c18.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.26) no other stake for the dice ? Hi in this reading stands in a curious position. It is true that in the Epic it not seldom opens the pāda. 1 Liter. : as whose lord didst thou play me away ? 2 Gatasattva lifeless, dead, annihilated; probably also : robbed of the senses (wanting in Böhtlingk). It is often found in the Epic (e.g. i, 226.9; ii, 65.42; 69.20; iii, 39.63; 52.48; 68.30; 161.5, 20; 162.36; 206.5; 272.22; iv, 13.36; vi, 107.40; 110.23; viii, 3.6; 19.35; ix, 1.40; 10.41; xiii, 71.8; xiv, 77.22). - [Previous: v2.c18.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.25) - [Next: v2.c18.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.27) - [Up: v2.c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.2.65) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.26) · Pramāṇa