[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.c19.73 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.73 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.73 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.73) \*Ancient Germans\*, p. 33 f., 36); among them, too, the value in law of the woman depended largely on her capability of bearing more children. And, as among them the pregnant woman enjoyed peculiar privileges (Grimm, \*Rechtsaltertümer\*, 1899, Bd. i, 564 ff.), so according to Smṛti she need pay no ferry-money nor toll; so also according to Kauṭilya (see 199.10-12 and addit. thereto). - [Previous: v2.c19.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.72) - [Next: v2.c19.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.74) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19) ## Linked texts (1) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.73) · Pramāṇa