Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3042

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5) Author of Kāmaśāstra. It is more or less clear that it was Śvetaketu who abridged the original work on Kāmaśāstra by Nandi, into 500 chapters. This abridgement of Śvetaketu was again abridged after some years by Bābhravya. It was after abridging it again and adding Dattakācārya's "Vaiśika" and Suvarṇanābha's "Sāmprayogika" etc., that Vātsyāyana composed his famous treatise "Kāmasūtra". Really speaking, the basis of Vātsyāyana's "Kāmasūtra" was the works of Bābhravya and Śvetaketu on Kāmaśāstra.