Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c6.122

Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra c6.122

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c6.122

The Strīrājya of Vātsyāyana, therefore, does not appear to have been a mythical land, but it must have been a state where polyandry was prevalent and where there was a king, apparently of the type described by Yuan-Chwang and it might have been located in the Himalayas to the north of the Panjab, but more probably in the region of the north-west beyond the Himalayas where the Bṛhat Saṃhitā and the Rājatarangiṇī place it.

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Rājataraṅgiṇī — Kalhaṇa, Sanskrit
Bṛhatsaṃhitā — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit