Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c7.15

c7.15

is the same as the n i r v e ś a or working for wages of Vātsyāyana. This fourfold division of the means of earning money according to birth, shows that in Vātsyāyana's time, occupation was controlled by the caste in which one was born. In connection with another important matter of life also, viz., marriage, Vātsyāyana speaks of the four castes, of higher and lower castes, and also on the advisability of the union between men and women of the same caste (s a v a r ṇ a) as we shall show in the next chapter.