Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture

Johann Jakob Meyer

Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House, 1971 - History - 590 pages

Contents

• PART: 1
• a The daughter is unwelcome: 21
• II: 36
• e The mans seed sent off by birdpost to her that is ready: 37
• g High esteem set on maidenly purity: 44
• TO WHOM AND HOW IS: 74
• a The fathers the kinsfolks right to marry away the daughter: 101
• o Polyandry: 108
• p Hetærism: 115
• q Speculations on the true nature of marriage: 130
• IIITHE WEDDING: 137
• a Wedlock a necessity for both sexes: 146
• Wedlock especially needful to woman: 155
• f The Levirate: 165
• The different kinds of sons: 174
• h Family life and family happiness: 183
• The misfortune of having but one child: 191
• VWOMAN AS MOTHER: 199
• Reverence of children towards the mother: 208
• WOMAN IN HER SEXUAL RELATIONS: 214
• THE PLEASURES OF SEX SURATA: 229
• VIIITHE SEXUAL CONTINENCE OF: 256
• b The ritu the time meet for fertilization and its high: 263
• XLOVE: 277
• PAGE: 340
• The faithful wife ftands above the holy penitent penitent: 347
• h Examples of wives who find it too much: 355
• g Which parts of the body come from the father which from: 369
• g Places and opportunities for love parks woods picnics: 371
• n Tales of changes in sex: 376
• XIIIWOMAN LYING: 391
• r Explanation of concepts phallolatry and some erotic details: 392
• a The spiteful holy man and the equally so cookingpot: 400
• a Her material position: 406
• f Age character and caste of the maiden whom the man must: 409
• Widowburning: 412
• WOMAN IN MISFORTUNE AND IN SORROW: 419
• THE IDEAL WOMAN: 427
• THE WOMAN OF ENERGY: 436
• Kunti fierily spurring on the words of Vidula: 457
• The ambitious and revengeful goddess: 463
• 58: 464
• e Womens journeyings: 470
• The watch over women and how but one in the world: 480
• h The treatment of woman: 486
• 67: 487
• 100: 493
• THE WORTH AND NATURE OF WOMAN: 495
• The man then must 217: 501
• g Is evil and sorrow: 502
• a Women girls as gifts and fees for sacrifice: 508
• e The wife for ones friend: 517
• 104: 518
• h Ramas treatment of the supposedly besmirched Sitä: 525
• Woman the wife also can easily be got is an unimportant: 531
• The might of womans beauty: 539
• 105: 546
• 324: 558
• INDEX: 567
• 328: 572
• 331: 579
• h Marriage by capture: 580

Popular passages

Page 3 - In the soul of the Indian there dwells that twin pair, burning sensuality and stark renunciation of the world and the flesh. What a delight and torment then must woman be to him ! And‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture
• Author: Johann Jakob Meyer
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House, 1971
• ISBN: 8120806387, 9788120806382
• Length: 590 pages
• Subjects: History / Asia / South / India