Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c6.89
Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra c6.89
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c6.89
In the Great Epic itself there is evidence that some of the Bāhlīkas at least were Asuras, that is, Asura-worshippers or Iranians: we are told of a very powerful king of the Bāhlīkas Darada by name who was a Mahāsura or a great Asura and this Darada, the Bāhlīka, is praised highly by Śiśupāla, an Indian sovereign with Asura tendencies.¹