[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.c18.9 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c18.9 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c18.9 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c18.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.9) ¹ The young girl swims with the help of a baked pot or jar to her lover; an unbaked one is foisted on her, and she drowns. J. C. Oman, \*The Mystics, Ascetics, and Saints of India\*, Lond., 1903, p. 266 ff.; Huth, \*Zschr. f. vergleich. Literaturgesch.\*, N.F., Bd. 4, p. 189; cp. Stuttg. Lit. Ver., Bd. 208, pp. 127, 131; Hagen, \*Gesamtab.\*, i, p. cxxviii f., and note. The jar or pot for crossing over is also mentioned in MBh., xiii, 34.18; Rām., ii, 89.20. Cp. Hertel, ZDMG, Bd. 65, p. 439. - [Previous: v2.c18.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.8) - [Next: v2.c18.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.10) - [Up: v2.c18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18) ## Linked texts (2) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.13.34.18) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Vālmīkirāmāyaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.ramayana.valmiki.2.89) — Vālmīki, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c18.9) · Pramāṇa