Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c5.s2.31

c5.s2.31

and is free from the technicalities of a long wooing, is the best of all¹ and Baudhāyana refers to this as the opinion of some authorities.² This idea we also find in the Mahābhārata.³ From the above, it is clear that Vātsyāyana has embodied in his work at least five sūtras from the Gṛhyasūtra of Āpastamba, though we cannot feel quite certain with regard to his debt to Baudhāyana. We are not quite sure about the date of these sūtra works, but the period to which this Vedic literature belonged, is supposed to have extended to about 500 B.C.⁴