[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.c22.27 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.27 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.27 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c22.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.27) Indra: plays a trick on girls bathing, 13; as a bird instructs penitents, 152; begets Arjuna, 164; defiles Ahalyā, 202, 320, 356, 484 (punishment for it), 524; pursuer of women, 206, 319, 480; comes in the form of the husband to the woman he desires, 320; on account of “Brahman-murder” creeps into the water at the edge of the world, 356; appears in the form of Vasisṭha, 402; changes into all sorts of forms in order to carry off women, and wishes to embrace Ruci, 480; covered with female pudenda as punishment, 485 - [Previous: v2.c22.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.26) - [Next: v2.c22.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.28) - [Up: v2.c22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.27) · Pramāṇa