Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c5.s2.71
Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra c5.s2.71
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c5.s2.71
Dr. Peterson then goes on to say: “The first, third and fourth precepts here are taken verbally from one sūtra, the second occurs elsewhere in our book; the third we have already had. Scholars must judge: but it seems to me to be almost certain that Kālidāsa is quoting Vātsyāyana, a fact, if it be a fact, which invests our author with great antiquity.”⁴ It will be observed frm an examination of the corresponding sūtras of Vātsyāyana⁵ that in