[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.c21.9 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c21.9 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c21.9 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c21.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.9) P. 34, n. 2. P. 33, l. 9 must be: "be a maid again (wieder)." "Still (noch)" is what I put in when reading the proofs (when the primary text was not by me) for an original "again" (punar), since I thought the reading was kanyaiva tvam bhaviṣyasi, as immediately follows ("thou wilt be a maid"). For this expression is the usual one, and it is often hard to decide whether it means "to be still a maid unharmed" or "to become a maid again". That these two conceptions were not distinguished is shown e.g. by the following passages: Satyavatī bore Vyāsa as a virgin (kanyaiva, i, 60.2). So, too, K., i, 114.32 makes Parāçara say to her: Garbham utsṛjya māmakam . . . kanyaiva tvam bhaviṣyasi (cp. B., i, 105.13). But in the next çloka we find: Kanyātvam ca dadau prītaḥ punar, etc. And to Mādhavī the Brahman says: Kanyaiva tvam bhaviṣyasi (v, 116.11), and then we are told of her kumārī kāmato bhūtvā (116.21), and kanyā bhūtvā (118.1), which can hardly mean anything but: "having become a maid again." Kuntī herself says: punar eva tu kanyābhavam (xv, 30.16). - [Previous: v2.c21.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.8) - [Next: v2.c21.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.10) - [Up: v2.c21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21) ## Cites (2) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa*vulgate.1.60.2) — Sanskrit - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c21.9) · Pramāṇa