Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c5.s2.80

c5.s2.80

² M. Chavannes has shown from Chinese sources that the Huns had won great power in the basin of the Oxus towards the middle of the fifth century A. C. (*Document sur les Toukiue Occiden aux*, pp. 222-3). We do not know yet exactly when the Hūṇas settled themselves in the Oxus valley. But there can be no doubt that the Hūṇas were known in India even before the time mentioned by M. Chavannes. The *Lalitavistara*, thought to have been written about three hundred