[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.c21.73 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c21.73 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c21.73 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c21.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.73) P. 404, n. Majjh., i, 190, speaks with emphatic and quite unmistakable words: Seyyathā pi āvuso suṇisā sasuraṃ disvā saṃvijjati, saṃvegam āpajjati, evam-eva, etc., “just as the daughter-in-law, when she sees her father-in-law, is disconcerted, is abashed, so, etc.” This comparison is also found elsewhere in the Majjh. I have only just seen the short communications on Indian examples by M. Winternitz and B. Liebich, WZKM, xxvi, 237 ff.; xxvii, 474 ff. - [Previous: v2.c21.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.72) - [Next: v2.c21.74](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.74) - [Up: v2.c21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21) ## Cites (1) - [Majjhimanikāya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.theravada.sp.majjhima.1.190) — Pāli --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.73) · Pramāṇa