[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.c22.13 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.13 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.13 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c22.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.13) Defloration : a serious offence, 44 ; dangerous, 313 Devara, a proxy in begetting, 162, 168 Devayānī : loves Kaca, contends with Çarmishṭhā and makes her her slave, 11 ; is beaten in children by Çarmishṭhā, 221 ; slighted by the husband, 474 Dharmacchala, 202 Dharna, see Prāya Dice-game, 441, 518 ; wrong to dice for a woman, 520 “Dignity of women,” 344, 486, 495 Dimple in the cheek penalized in woman, 434 Dīrghatamas : even in the womb protests against group-marriage, 113 ; prescribes only one husband for women, 124 Discontent : the root of happiness and of greatness, 452, 459 Division of inheritance, 65 ; what the daughter receives 9 ; what the widow receives, 65, 406 Domestic happiness, 183, 212 Draupadī : still a virgin after cohabitation, 42 ; holds a Svayaṃvara and becomes wife of the five Pāṇḍavas, 79 ; her birth, 80, 111 ; why she received five husbands, 109, add. to 111 ; prefers Arjuna, 113 ; her wrong the cause of the war, 215, 534 ; wants the golden flower, 298 ; her sons slain, 303 ; as chambermaid (sairandhrī), 304, 316 ; experience with Kicaka, 304 ; blames Yudhishṭhira, 306, 450 ; beautiful relation to her mother-in-law, 405 ; grief on Arjuna’s departure, 419 ; scent from her is wafted a kroça away, 430 ; feminine charms, 430, cf. 80 ; energetic and passionate, 440 ; “gambled away,” 441, cf. 302, 405, 518 ; abducted by a Rākshasa, 456 ; by Jayadratha, 304 ; wants to incite Yudhishṭhira to action, 450 ; is angered that Arjuna has married Subhadrā, 475 ; her beauty angers other women, 471, 505 ; a model wife, 536 Drinking of intoxicating liquor, 273, 317, 322 ; of women, 305, 322, 336. Cf. Spirits Durvāsas : very exacting and hot-tempered, 25 ; spiteful, 400 Duryodhana : abducts a maiden, 72 ; holds up water, 319 ; what his body is made out of, 321 Dyūtamaṇḍala, “the circle drawn round the dice-players, which they may not leave before the fulfilment of their obligations,” 504 - [Previous: v2.c22.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.12) - [Next: v2.c22.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.14) - [Up: v2.c22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.13) · Pramāṇa