Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c5.s2.82
Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra c5.s2.82
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c5.s2.82
the reigning period of Chandragupta Vikramāditya in the early years of the fifth century A.C.. Varāhamihira who unquestionably lived in the sixth century A.C., has in his *Brhat-Samhitā* certain chapters, specially two, named *Kāndarpikam* and *Pumstrī-Samāyoga*,¹ in which he has dealt with matters falling within the sphere of the Kāmaśāstra and in them he seems clearly to have availed himself of Vātsyāyana's work, though he nowhere mentions his name.