Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c5.s2.88

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years after Christ (Dr. Winternitz, *Geschichte der Indischen Litteratur*, Band II, p. 200) mentions *Hūna-Lipi* as one of the scripts learned by the young Siddhārtha (*Lalitavistara* edited by Dr. S. Lefmann, Vol. I. p. 126 ; IA, 1913, p. 266). Besides Dr. J. J. Modi has shown from an examination of passages in the Avestā that the Huns were known in Persia as a wandering or pillaging nation not later than the seventh century before Christ (*R. G. Bhāndārkar Commemoration Volume*, pp. 71-76). It stands to reason therefore that the Huns should be known to the Indians also, especially since their occupation of the Oxus valley, seeing that Bactria was very well known to Vātsyāyana and was considered a part of India so late as the sixth century A. C. when Varāhamihira wrote his *Brhat-Samhitā*.