[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.c18.73 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c18.73 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c18.73 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c18.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.73) ¹ This of course is a wonderful stone of the kind often found in the tales: whoever wears it is proof against all fear and danger; hunger and want, sickness and weapons have to leave him unscathed, even gods, demons, and spirits have no hold on him. See in my Daçakum., p. 166; K. Fleck's \*Flore und Blancheflur\*, 2884 ff.; 6713 ff.; Hagen's \*Gesamtab.\*, i, 463. With this piece of the MBh. cp. Bhāgavata-purāṇa, i, 7.14 ff. (Arjuna brings A. before Draupadī, and cuts the jewel out of his head). - [Previous: v2.c18.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.72) - [Next: v2.c18.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.74) - [Up: v2.c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18) ## Linked texts (1) - [Bhāgavatapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.bhagavata.1.7.14) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.73) · Pramāṇa