Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c5.s2.22

c5.s2.22

This verse is found in the Dharmasūtras of *Vasiṣṭha*⁵ and *Baudhāyana*⁶ with very slight and immaterial variations. With some further modifications it is found in the Saṃhitās of *Manu*⁷ and *Viṣṇu*⁸ also. Its occurrence in almost identical forms in so many works shows that it must have been borrowed from some common and ancient authority on *Dharma*. Again, in a verse in his chapter on marriage, Vātsyāyana shows an agreement in idea with Baudhāyana. Vātsyāyana says that as mutual affection between a couple is the object of all forms of marriage, therefore the *Gāndharva* form which has its basis in love, is easier to celebrate,