[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.c21.39 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c21.39 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c21.39 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c21.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.39) P. 164, near end. As to Kuntī’s fear of moral stain cp. in the interpolated adhy. in K., i, 213, çl. 20-21: In “misfortune” and when authorized, there is for the woman according to the holy tradition one other besides the husband; but to a third man she must not go, otherwise she must atone for it. If there is a fourth the woman loses her caste, and if a fifth then she becomes a vardhaki (is the reading bandhaki? Or is it from vardh to cut? Cp. chinnā in Milindap., p. 122; Jāt., ii, 114, line 3; chinnāla “a loose fellow” (chinna + suff. āla); Uttarajjh., xxvii, 7; Deçīnāmam., 3.27; ZDMG, 58, p. 372; Charpentier in ZDMG, Bd. 70, p. 243. Skt. chinnā, according to the lexicographers “loose woman”). - [Previous: v2.c21.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.38) - [Next: v2.c21.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.40) - [Up: v2.c21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21) ## Cites (4) - [Jātakatthavaṇṇanā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.jataka!jatakatthavannana*cst.2.5.1.p2) — Pāli - [Milindapañha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.khuddaka.milindapanha) — Pāli - [Uttarajjhayaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.jaina.sveta.mula.2) — Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.39) · Pramāṇa