[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.c19.77 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.77 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.77 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.77) ³ Even for the sake of mother or father a man shall not speak an untruth (xiii, 107.50). “They that neither for their own sakes, nor for the sake of others, nor in play, nor to make a jest say that which is not, come into heaven. They that neither to save their life, nor for the sake of a holy end, nor of their own free will speak untruth come into heaven” (xiii, 115.71 we meet the beautiful instruction: “Speak the truth and not falsehood; truth is the eternal good (the eternal law, etc.); Hariçcandra walks in heaven in moonlike glory because of his truthfulness.” This does not harmonize with ii, 12.10 ff., according to which this celebrated king won such great - [Previous: v2.c19.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.76) - [Next: v2.c19.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.78) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa.13.107.50) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.77) · Pramāṇa