Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c5.s1.46
Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra c5.s1.46
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The monographs written by the successors of Bābhravya,—Dattaka and others—are quoted by Vātsyāyana in the respective chapters of his book. Dattaka's book on the courtesans appears to have been in use in the eighth century A.C. when Dāmodaragupta wrote his Kuṭṭanīmatam³ and it may have been availed of by the commentator who quotes a sūtra of Dattaka where Vātsyāyana has translated the substance of it.¹ Of the other writers, Gonardīya has been quoted by Mallinātha in his gloss on Kumārasambhava, VII, 95, and on Raghuvamśa, XIX, 29, 30.