[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.c19.106 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.106 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.106 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.106](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.106) ³ In full somewhat as follows : through sleeping sleep is not checkmated, through love not women, through wood not fire, through drinking not spirituous liquor (all of them always keep their old strength and insatiableness, one is never done with them). The saying (with a slight variant) is also in Garuḍapur., 109.34. - [Previous: v2.c19.105](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.105) - [Next: v2.c19.107](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.107) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19) ## Linked texts (1) - [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.106](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.106) · Pramāṇa