[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.c20.27 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.27 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.27 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c20.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.27) ³ As is well known, a custom also, like the lending and exchanging of a wife, in olden and later times in the most differing places in the world. The most famous case is Cato, who gave up his Marcella to his friend Hortensius; and according to Strabo this was here also in accordance with good and old tradition (Lippert, \*Kulturgesch.\*, ii, 18). But in India it is often declared that the wife must not be given to any man (e.g. Bṛhaspati, xv, 2). - [Previous: v2.c20.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.26) - [Next: v2.c20.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.28) - [Up: v2.c20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20) ## Cites (1) - [Bṛhaspatismṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.uddhrta.brhaspati) — Bṛhaspati, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.27) · Pramāṇa