Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c8.s6.t8: Anumaraṇa

Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra c8.s6.t8

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Anumaraṇa

c8.s6.t8.1

Vātsyāyana once refers to the *anumaraṇa*² of a woman upon the death of her lover; perhaps it has a reference to the practice of *sahamaraṇa* or dying with the husband, that is, burning herself on the same funeral pyre, but we cannot be sure about it upon such meagre evidence.

c8.s6.t8.2

² सक्तस चातुमरणं म्रयान् ।—*Ibid*, p. 316 (*sūtra* 53).

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Kāmasūtra — Vātsyāyana Mallanāga, Sanskrit