[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.c20.14 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.14 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.14 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c20.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.14) ² See e.g. McLennan, \*Primit. Marriage\*, p. 96, n.; Grosse, \*Die Formen d. Familie\*, p. 112; Müller-Lyer, \*Phasen d. Liebe\* (1913), pp. 2 ff.; Westermarck, \*Human Marriage\*³, pp. 72–75; Hertz, \*Gift-mädchen\*, 120–21; Finck, \*Prim. Love\*, 78, 429, 478, 638 f. and elsewhere; Hartland, \*Prim. Patern.\*, ch. vii; Ploss-Bartels⁴, i, p. 402, 430; Dargun, \*Mutterrecht u. Raubehe\*, 43; Schweiger-Lerchenfeld, \*Die Frauen d. Orients\*, 234; Weinhold, \*Die deutschen Frauen\*, etc., ii, 199 f.; Feist, \*Kultur, Herkunft u. Ausbreitung d. Indogermanen\*, 283 f.; Christian Schulz, \*Aus Hagenbecks Jagdgründen\* (Dresden, 1922), p. 110 f.; Günther, \*Weib u. Sittlichkeit\*, 29; Schmidt, \*Liebe u. Ehe\*, p. 543 f. In India, to do honour to the guest, the daughter is also given as wife. Wilson’s \*Vishnupur.\*, iv, p. 79, etc. - [Previous: v2.c20.13.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.13.4) - [Next: v2.c20.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.15) - [Up: v2.c20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20) ## Cites (1) - [Viṣṇupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.14) · Pramāṇa