[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.c18.68 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c18.68 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c18.68 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c18.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.68) espec. 65 and 70; Ṛgveda, x, 83 and 84. But Kauṭilya, 501.11 ff. agrees with Herman Melville when he says: “Hate is woe” (Moby Dick, ch. cxix). See also MBh., iii, 29; and so on ad infinitum in Old India. Tegnér’s splendid song of praise to “Oro” (Unrest) comes into the mind, when we read such verses as: “Discontent is the root of happiness, therefore I love it; if a man strives after rising, that, O king, is the highest wisdom in life.” Cp. i, 180.3; ii, 50.17 ff.; 49.13, 14; 55.11; v, 160.61, 92; etc.; but especially the utterances of Vidulā (v, 133 ff.) to be shortly given. - [Previous: v2.c18.67](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.67) - [Next: v2.c18.69](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.69) - [Up: v2.c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18) ## Linked texts (4) - [Vulgate (Nīlakaṇṭha's text)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.1.180.3) — Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.10.83) — Sanskrit - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.68](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.68) · Pramāṇa