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Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c6.288

Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra c6.288

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c6.288

S a u r ā ṣ t r a k a s, or the people of Surāṣṭra, that is, the peninsula of Kathiawar, are mentioned in connection with the pratice of the city as well as the country women among them, of living in the royal harem either individually or in a body for sporting with the king¹. L ā ṭ a or Northern Kathiawar is referred to twice,—some characteristics of the ladies of Lāṭa being given in one passage² and those of the men in another³.