Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c8.s5.t2.6

c8.s5.t2.6

At the *goṣṭhis* were also discussed the sixty-four *Pañcāla* or *kāma-kalās* and Vātsyāyana declares that a person possessing a knowledge of this sixty-four, even though devoid of all the other sciences, leads the talk at the *goṣṭhis* of men and women; and on the other hand, a person who speaks cleverly on other subjects but knows not the sixty-four, is not much respected in the discussions in the assembly of the learned.³