[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.c22.19 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.19 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.19 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c22.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.19) Good: nothing entirely good, nothing entirely bad, 59; “way of life of the good” deceptive, 64 Grail: the Holy, and its chaste guardian, 400 Greatness and fortune connected with misfortune, 461; with assertion of self, 92; by what means brought to naught, 458 Grief: for dead child, 186; hallowing by grief, 151; love its root, 333, 365; the woman in sorrow, 419; for the dead hurts these too, 420; revenge is consolation in grief, 454 Guardianship of woman, 480, 499, 526; seclusion and veiling, 447, 526 Guest: must be welcomed and honoured in every way, 512; hospitable prostitution, 512 Guru: all the women of his spiritual flock for the Guru, 174; the high dignity of the spiritual teacher, 199; wicked one must be punished (abandoned), 200, 386, cf. 58; how terrible, if a disciple cohabits with the wife of the teacher, 251, cf. 162, 222; sexual offences which are equal to gurutalpa, 252 - [Previous: v2.c22.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.18) - [Next: v2.c22.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.20) - [Up: v2.c22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.19) · Pramāṇa