[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.c21.8 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c21.8 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c21.8 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c21.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.8) P. 32, ll. 18 ff. It is probably safer to keep to the usual meaning of kare gṛhītvā: "How could I then, who am now so alarmed, make a headlong marriage, and perform the giving of myself away, which lies not with me, out of my own full powers?" - [Previous: v2.c21.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.7) - [Next: v2.c21.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.9) - [Up: v2.c21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.8) · Pramāṇa