Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c8.164
Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra c8.164
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¹ सुकविभवस्तु गुणावान् सकलत्रो वेशे गोष्ठ्यां च बहुमतस्तदुपजीवी च विट: ।... *Ibid*, p 56 (*sūtra* 45). We meet with this and the other characters here described, in Bhāsa's Cārudatta. The Viṭa there is a typical one: he has attached himself to a rich man in power, Śakāra, whom however he hates for his grossness, for he has still some noble and soft feelings left in himself; moreover, he speaks Sanskrit, showing, that he has received a liberal education and has evidently known better days.