[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.c19.75 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.75 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.75 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.75) ¹ “In marrying, in the game of love, in jest and in sorrow a lie is allowable.” Gautama, xiii, 29 (and thus “some”). Vasistha, xvi, 36, has instead of the last two cases: when loss of life or of one’s whole property is threatened, or the highest weal of a Brahman comes into question. A false oath is no sin either, where a beloved woman, a marriage, fodder for a cow, or firewood is concerned, or for the purpose of obliging a Brahman, Manu, viii, 112. Cp. also Manu, viii, 104 f.; Yājñav., ii, 83; Gautama, xiii, 24 f.; Bṛhaspati, vii, 34; MBh., xii, 109.14-20. - [Previous: v2.c19.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.74) - [Next: v2.c19.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.76) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19) ## Linked texts (6) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.8.112) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit - [Vasiṣṭhadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vasistha.16.36) — Vasiṣṭha, Sanskrit - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.2.83) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Gautamadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.gautama.13.29) — Gautama (dharmasūtrakāra), Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.12.109.14) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Bṛhaspatismṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.brhaspati) — Bṛhaspati, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.75) · Pramāṇa