[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.c19.98 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.98 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c19.98 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c19.98](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.98) on women can point to a whole army of kindred souls throughout the world. Cp. with this and the next chapter, for instance, Fr. S. Krauss, \*Sitte u. Brauch d. Südslaven\*, the section on “Das Weib; Rosegger, \*Volksleben in Steiermark\*¹⁰, p. 394 f.; Elsie Clews Parsons, \*The Old-Fashioned Woman\*, pp. 203 ff. The view of the Arabs strikes one as thoroughly Indian: Woman is the source of all evil on earth, and God only made this monster that the man should learn to turn from earthly things (\*Anthropos\*, iii, 65). - [Previous: v2.c19.97](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.97) - [Next: v2.c19.99.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.99.1) - [Up: v2.c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.98](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c19.98) · Pramāṇa