Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c4.3

c4.3

Vātsyāyana delineates many local customs—d e ś y o p a c ā r ā ḥ—as he calls them, characterizing the various peoples of India inhabiting the different parts of its wide area. I have, therefore, thought it necessary, while passing in review the customs peculiar to each province or people to fix the location of the countries about which there have been controversies among scholars ; this matter has therefore been treated, with some fulness, in Chapter II of this book. It first appeared in the *Annals of the Bhandarkar Institute* (Vols. VII and VIII).