Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c8.s5.t6.3
Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra c8.s5.t6.3
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c8.s5.t6.3
The games and festivities of the *nāgaraka* are, as we see from the description given above, the diversions of a seeker after pleasure and amusement—of one that had plenty of leisure to enjoy and an ample fortune to provide the means of enjoyment. Among manly sports, wrestling matches were known to Vātsyāyana, but the *nāgaraka* appears to have been rather a spectator at these games than one who took an active part in them; the *Kāmasūtra* also speaks of hunting as a pastime that becomes a source of pleasure by practice, when one has acquired some skill in it and this seems to be the one manly sport that the *nāgaraka* knows of.²