Das Weib im altindischen Epos
Subtitle: ein Beitrag zur indischen und zur vergleichenden Kulturgeschichte
By: von Johann Jacob Meyer.
Publisher: W. Heims
Published: 1915
Place of publication: Leipzig
Format: Microform
Subjects: Women -- India -- Social conditions.; Hindu women.
Description: A lengthy anthropological treatise on the life of women as detailed in olden Indian epics. Some of the many topics covered include the young girl, marriage and its mores, the wedding, married life, the wife as mother, sexual customs, chastity on the part of the man, love, pregnancy, widowhood, views of the woman in general, and the powerful role that women conceivably could play.