[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.c20.60 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.60 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.60 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c20.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.60) ³ Cp. Jātaka, No. 67: A woman whose husband, son, and brother have been condemned to death, is allowed to beg one off; she chooses her brother; for although she declares: ‘Without water the river is bare, without a king the kingdom, without a husband the woman, though she have ten brothers,’ yet she holds: ‘The son I have in my womb, a man runs towards me on the road, but a brother I can - [Previous: v2.c20.59](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.59) - [Next: v2.c20.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.61) - [Up: v2.c20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20) ## Linked texts (1) - [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.60) · Pramāṇa