[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chakladar-1929) › c4.2 # Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c4.2 Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra c4.2 - **Language:** English ### [c4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chakladar-1929.c4.2) An indispensable preliminary was an accurate determination of the time when Vātsyāyana wrote his book, especially as in the history of Indian literature there are very few definite dates. I have therefore first of all discussed this question at some length from internal and external evidence. My paper on the date of the Kāmasūtra was first published in the \*Journal of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society\* in 1919, and again, after a thorough revision, in the \*Journal of the Department of Letters\* (Vol. IV) of the University of Calcutta. The conclusions arrived at by me have been confirmed by the discussions that my paper has raised, both in India and in Europe, and I have reviewed them towards the end of Chapter I. Prof. A. B. Keith in his recently published \*History of Sanskrit Literature\*, shows himself inclined to bring down my date by about two centuries, but he has not fully set forth his reasons for thingking so. - [Previous: c4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chakladar-1929.c4.1) - [Next: c4.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chakladar-1929.c4.3) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chakladar-1929.c4) ## Cites (1) - [Kāmasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.kamasutra-school.vatsyayana) — Vātsyāyana Mallanāga, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chakladar-1929.c4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chakladar-1929.c4.2) · Pramāṇa