[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.c20.74 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.74 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c20.74 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c20.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.74) ² Cp. Jātaka, Nos. 159; 267; Vasiṣṭha, xxviii, 6; Baudh., ii, 4, 5; Yājñav., i, 71 (in the last three passages: Gandharva has given women their sweet voice). Thus Eugene Field, too, sings: “For it’s everywhere known That the feminine tone Gets away with all masculine gender” (“The Doll’s Wooing” in \*Poems of Childhood\*). - [Previous: v2.c20.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.73) - [Next: v2.c20.75](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.75) - [Up: v2.c20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20) ## Linked texts (4) - [Baudhāyanadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.baudhayana.2.4) — Baudhāyana, Sanskrit - [Vasiṣṭhadharmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.dharma.vasistha.28.6) — Vasiṣṭha, Sanskrit - [Yājñavalkyasmṛti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.yajnavalkya.1.71) — Yājñavalkya, Sanskrit - [Jātaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c20.74) · Pramāṇa