Sexual Life in Ancient India

Sexual Life in Ancient India

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Author: Johann Jakob Meyer
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Year: 1985
Language: English
Pages: 591
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8120806387

Description

This book provides the reader with the most faithful and valuable account of the life of a woman from maidenhood to adolescence, describing in great detail the relations of the sexes and the concepts underlying those relations that prevailed in India about fifteen hundred years ago.

This vivid account is based upon the immense mass of material embedded in the vast Sanskrit literature, especially the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

The book contains twenty-two chapters divided into two parts bound in a single volume. The book describes the life of a woman in all the different stages of her life - in pleasure and grief, in war and peace, explaining in great detail her accomplishments as the ideal woman, her position, rank, importance, worth, nature, power etc. We find herein, for the first time some interesting and instructive directives on the pleasures of sex, venal love, man's sexual continence and kindered issues of sexual life.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART ONE

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

XI - WOMAN AS WIFE

PART TWO

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 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

Contents

PART TWO

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