A Popular Dictionary of Hinduism
a treatise on love written by Vātsyāyana Mallanāga (fourth or fifth century A.D.).
Profound understanding of erotic matters and skill in sexual love may be regarded as more or less a religious duty of a Hindu within the system of āśrama dharma, i.e. duties to be met according to the stage of life he is in. In the second stage of his life, as a householder, one of the two human aims ).png)
he ought to realize is kāma or sensory and aesthetic fulfilment on all levels which, of course, includes love in all its aspects.
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