[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.c19.89 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.89 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.89 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.89](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.89) ¹ Cp. Manu, iii, 55–62 ; ix, 25–29. Rabindranath Tagore writes : It is impossible for a woman in a European family to attain to the varied perfections which a woman can in a Hindu home. Our women make our homes smile with sweetness, tenderness, and love. . . We are quite happy with our household goddesses, and they themselves never told of their ‘miserable condition’. Basanta Koomar Roy, Rabindranath Tagore (New York, 1915), pp. 123, 125. - [Previous: v2.c19.88](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.88) - [Next: v2.c19.90](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.90) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mānava Dharmaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.manu.3.55) — Manu & Bhṛgu, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.89](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.89) · Pramāṇa