[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.c20.61 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.61 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.61 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c20.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.61) nowhere find again.’ The wife, indeed, of Intaphernes does the same in Herodotus. Cp. Antigone, 909-912 : Reinhold Klotz, \*Antrittsvorlesung\*, 15th April, 1850 (Leipzig, 1853) ; Finck, 764 and note ; Lippert, \*Kulturgesch.\*, ii, 55 ; Schweiger-Lerchenfeld, \*Frauen d. Orients\*, 358 f.; etc. “ In a folk-song the choice is left a girl whether she will save her brother, or save her beloved from certain death. She decides for the brother : ‘ For,’ said she, ‘ I can find a lover at once, I only need walk once through the village ; but I can never get a brother again.’ ” Fr. S. Krauss, \*Sitte u. Brauch d. Südslaven\*, p. 166. Cp. \*Ztschr. d. Ver. f. Volksk.\*, Bd. 16, p. 459 (South Arabian form). And in Swinburne’s “ Atalanta in Calydon ” Atalanta exclaims : “ For all things else men may renew, Yea, son for son the gods may give and take, But never a brother or sister any more ” ; and she kills her own son, who has slain her brothers (ed. Stoddard, p. 33). So, too, Edward III of Sicily mourned his father’s death more than his son’s, for : \*Jactura filiorum facilis est, cum cotidie multiplicentur ; parentum vero mors irremediabilis est, quia nequeant restaurari\* (Schultz, \*Das höfische Leben\*, ii, 472, note 5). So, too, K., i, 173.20 : Parents easily get other and good children again, but these latter never get parents again. Cp. B., i, 230.13. And Dietrich in Konrad of Würzburg’s \*Engelhard\* resolves to kill his two children, and to heal his leper friend with their blood, since a man, he says, can always get children again, but not a friend (6184 ff.). - [Previous: v2.c20.60](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.60) - [Next: v2.c20.62](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.62) - [Up: v2.c20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20) ## Cites (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.1.173.20) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.61](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.61) · Pramāṇa