[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.c22.77 # Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.77 Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c22.77 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c22.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.77) Surata: public, 124; the highest thing, 133; taking on one’s own form during the surata, 137; the man seeks pleasure therein, the woman the child, 205; should only be practised in the ṛtu (for the begetting of children), 218; not before maturity is reached, 219, 257; \*must\* be practised when the wife is in ṛtu, 220; necessary for the woman, 229; caprices and skill of the woman in the surata, 229; delight of the woman therein, 233; how wicked to interrupt it, 233, cf. 114; death during the surata, 233, cf. 102, 161, 163; immoderate liking for it, 237, 416; finesse in it, 237; as a means of cure, 238; unclean, 240, cf. 230; not in the golden age, 241; in the mouth (āsyamaithuna), 242; homosexual, 242; exchanging of clothes of the sexes with the surata, 243; not with çrāddha, 243; other times, places, things, forbidden for it, 243; only allowed with one’s own wife, 245, 304, 333; not with the pregnant woman, 246; eightfold, 251; not - [Previous: v2.c22.76](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.76) - [Next: v2.c22.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.78) - [Up: v2.c22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.meyer-1915.v2.c22.77) · Pramāṇa