Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c8.s5.3

c8.s5.3

Vātsyāyana classifies the occasional festivities into five groups. In the first place he mentions the festivals in connection with the worship of different deities (*samāja*, *yātrā* and *ghaṭā*), sometimes attended with grand processions; then come the *goṣṭhīs* or social gatherings of both sexes; next *āpānakas* or drinking parties and *udyāna-yātrās* or garden-parties, and last of all various social diversions in which many persons take part (*samasyā krīḍā*).²