Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c8.s5.t3.1

c8.s5.t3.1

Besides the *goṣṭhīs* the *nāgarakas* also met at each other's house to hold drinking parties where they drank various kinds of liquors with sauces of various tastes and flavours, but abstention from wine was considered a special qualification in a nāgaraka.¹