[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.c19.122 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.122 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.122 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.122](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.122) ³ He does not take this evil to himself (\*ādatte\*), does not let it come into his soul; it can, indeed, never touch his innermost self. And then he never makes such action his own, he does not requite evil with evil. Perhaps the interpretation should be according to Sītā’s foregoing words—that man enjoys only the fruit of his own work, and the genit. taken in the meaning of an ablat. : Evil does not come to one man from another, the evil-doer. The duty, the law of the good is naturally love and pity. - [Previous: v2.c19.121](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.121) - [Next: v2.c19.123](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.123) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.122](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.122) · Pramāṇa