Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c8.67

c8.67

Vātsyāyana sums up the whole thing in a verse in his section on courtship where he says that a maiden of tender years should be won over with the help of childlike sports and playthings, a damsel come of age by skill in the arts, and a spinster of more advanced years—vatsalā—with the help of persons in whom she confides.⁴