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Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c6.262

Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra c6.262

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c6.262

The people of the Andhra country, which the Commentator tells us, was in the Dakṣiṇāpatha, to the east of the Karṇāṭa-Viṣaya⁵, is referred to several times. The Andhra ladies are referred to in two passages⁶ and Vātsyāyana speaks of a custom by which a newly married damsel among the Andhras was sent to the king's harem on the tenth day with some presents¹.