Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c5.s2.32
Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra c5.s2.32
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c5.s2.32
Next, we find that Vātsyāyana has embodied in his book a considerable number of passages from a work whose date is more definitely known, viz., from the Arthaśāstra of Kauṭilya⁵ which is now generally considered to have been written about 300 B.C., and he has followed the method of Kauṭilya throughout the Kāmasūtra. This has led to the absurd identification of Kauṭilya with Vātsyāyana and a host of other authors in some of the Kośas or lexicons.⁶