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Sexual life in ancient India : a study in the comparative history of Indian culture / J.J. Meyer.
Van Pelt Library HQ18.I4 M4913 2003 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meyer, Johann Jakob, 1870-1939.
- Series:
- Kegan Paul library of sexual life
- The Kegan Paul library of sexual life
- Standardized Title:
- Weib im altindischen Epos. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Sex customs--India.
- Sex customs.
- India.
- Women--India--History.
- Women.
- History.
- Hindu civilization.
- India--Social life and customs.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes(xi, 590 pages) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Kegan Paul ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- The two volumes of this work make available many years of labor and scholarly work on the fundamental concepts of Indian thought which have determined the attitude of Indian civilization in regard to the relation of the sexes for more than two thousand years.
- Notes:
- An account of the life of woman in ancient India, based upon material in the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyana; with emendations and additions by the author, who has completely revised the German work--cf. 1930 Routledge ed., v. 1, p. [iv] and vii.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0710307837
- OCLC:
- 50773354
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