[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.c19.61 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.61 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.61 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.61) ¹ Indian literature is rich in beautiful sayings on the loving treatment of the woman. Reference may be made here to Mahānirvāṇatantra, viii, 33-47. In the same work (ix, 64) it is laid down: If a man utters ill words to his wife he shall fast for a day; if he hits her, three; if so that she bleeds, seven days. According to Yājñav., ii, 232 he must pay a 50 paṇa fine who strikes his brother or his wife (he that destroys the fruit in a slave-woman's womb, one hundred, çl. 236). "Women must on no account be chastised." Jahn, Saurapurāṇa, p. 115. The man must quietly take their abusive words, and never dispute with them. MBh., xii, 243.14 ff. Cp. Parāçara, xii, 56 f.; Mahānirvāṇatantra, xi, 64. - [Previous: v2.c19.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.60) - [Next: v2.c19.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.62) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19) ## Linked texts (4) - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.2.232) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.12.243.14) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Mahānirvāṇatantra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.sampradaya.general.sakta.mahanirvana) — Sanskrit - [Saurapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.upa.saiva.saura) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.61) · Pramāṇa