Sexual Life In Ancient India V2

A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture

Johann Jakob Meyer

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9780710307835
• eBook ISBN:
  9781136889134
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

First Published in 2005. This is book attempts to give a true and vivid account of the life of woman in ancient India, based upon the immense masses of material imbedded in the two great Epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

INDEX

Preliminary remark.—It was my wish to present in this book as many as possible rather long and undivided pieces, but, at the same time, not to repeat more often than seemed absolutely necessary, certain statements, which, quite naturally in another connection, were again important, perhaps much more important. The Index should, therefore, not only serve to retrace passages, but also to collect together again the details of a particular subject. Here I will give just one example, right from the beginning of the book. On games and amusements of girls, page 9 gives only a very scanty account. If one reads on, however, then one receives, particularly from those sections of the Epic that have been translated, very much further information, and, finally, one has, after all, some of the main lines of the picture. If one wishes to read these together, one should refer to the Index, under Girl: games and amusements.—Add. means addition (to be looked up in the Appendix).

Abduction of the wife of another, 77, 128

Abhi with abl., “hither from,” 153

Abhimardana, coition, 318

Abhisaṃdeha, 389

Abhisārikā, the woman going on a love-visit, 292, 335, 432, 540

Accusative: with verb. dicendi = “of, about,” 125; with passive, 306

“Act of truth,” 289, 350, 525, 527, 529

Action and energy praised, 450, 458

Actors (and singers): live on their wives, 129, 250

Adharottara, 241

Adultery: severely condemned and punished, 119, 170, 245; conception of adultery, 251; husband may kill adulterer without further ado, 250; the man punished much more than the woman in adultery, 522; in particular that of the woman with a man from a lower caste, 253; no blame rests on woman in adultery, 205, 522; when the man is not an adulterer, 250 (notes), 335 note 2; punishment of the adulterous woman, 520, cf. 253

Agastya: must marry, 149; marries Lopamudrā and experiences difficulties before the su rata, 229; hunts and sanctions hunting, 234; hero of digestion and crepitus ventris, 231

Āghrāta, “caught hold of,” 476

Agni: falls in love with the wives of the seven Ṛishis, 46; witness to what happens in the world, 97, 525, 527; adventure with a princess and the granting of sexual freedom to women, 116; previous owner of woman, 227, 312, add. to 391

Ahalyā, see Indra

Ahasuerus or “wandering Jew”: Indian and American Indian, 191

Ākshipta, “(lightly) thrown round,” 540

Ākshobhya, hurrying, stirring, 300

Alone: each is, 92

Amarsha: is commended, 451, 460, cf. 307

Ambā: abducted and robbed of marriage by Bhīshma, is bent on vengeance, 381

Aṃçu, moonbeam, add. to 82

Ānantaryam ārabhate, 460

Anāvṛita, 118, 119

Ancestors: hanging like birds in a cave, 147; bestow children, 223; send one hunting and love flesh-offerings, 223

Anger: must be checked, 1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Editor's Introduction
• Table of Contents
• I.—THE MAID
• II.—MARRIAGE: TO WHOM AND HOW IS THE MAIDEN TO BE MARRIED?
• III.—THE WEDDING
• IV.—LIFE IN MARRIAGE
• V.—WOMAN AS MOTHER
• VI.—WOMAN IN HER SEXUAL RELATIONS
• VII.—THE PLEASURES OF SEX (SURATA)
• VIII.—THE SEXUAL CONTINENCE OF MAN
• IX.—THE PLEASURES OF VENAL LOVE: THE PUBLIC WOMAN
• X.—LOVE
• XI.—WOMAN AS WIFE
• XII.—WOMAN AS CHILD-BEARER: THE ORIGIN OF MAN, PHYSIOLOGICALLY AND METAPHYSICALLY
• XIII.—WOMAN LYING IN
• XIV.—WOMAN IN THE HOUSE
• XV.—THE WIDOW AND HER BITTER LOT
• XVI.—WOMAN IN MISFORTUNE AND IN SORROW
• XVII.—THE IDEAL WOMAN
• XVIII.—THE WOMAN OF ENERGY
• XIX.—POSITION, RANK, AND IMPORTANCE OF WOMAN
• XX.—THE WORTH AND NATURE OF WOMAN
• XXI.—WOMAN IS A CHATTEL
• XXII.—THE POWER OF WOMAN
• APPENDIX: ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS
• INDEX