Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c5.s1.3

c5.s1.3

² This agrees with what is said in the *Mahābhārata*, *Śantiparva*, Ch 59, with regard to the origin of the sciences. Here we are told that at the request of the gods who were filled with anxiety at the entire absence of discipline among mankind, Prajāpati Brahmā produced from his own intelligence a hundred thousand chapters in which were delineated *Dharma*—the science of religion and duty, *Artha*—the science of politics and economics and *Kāma*—the science of love.—