[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chakladar-1929) › c6.167 # Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c6.167 Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra c6.167 - **Language:** English ### [c6.167](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chakladar-1929.c6.167) Varāhamihira who lived about the same time as King Īśānavarman,—that is, the first half of the sixth century after Christ²—in his \*Bṛhat Saṃhitā\*, also places Gauḍa in the immediate neighbourhood of Pauṇḍra in the eastern region,³ and Vaṅga and Kaliṅga in the south-east He thus gives a correct position for Gauḍa and Vaṅga, and the Taneshar of Mr. Jackson is not Gauḍa but Guḍa, which again, is only the second half of the name of a country the full designation of which according to Varāhamihira⁵ was \*Pāṇḍuguḍa\*, as may be seen from the way in which Bhaṭṭotpala reads the passage in his celebrated commentary on the \*Bṛhatsaṃhitā\*;⁶ the error of dividing the single name into two is most probably not of Albiruni who was well acquainted with the commentary,¹ but of the Translator. - [Previous: c6.166](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chakladar-1929.c6.166) - [Next: c6.168](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chakladar-1929.c6.168) - [Up: c6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chakladar-1929.c6) ## Linked texts (1) - [Bṛhatsaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.samhita.rsi.brhatsamhita) — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chakladar-1929.c6.167](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chakladar-1929.c6.167) · Pramāṇa