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deity consisted in the worship of Cupid. The go-betweens in sexual sport formed the preceptors of the group of gallants.'
The Dravida ladies employed the plaster of turmeric fluid on their bodies wet with the evening ablution. The ivory moon-chambers of the coquettes had black aloe burning all the time to render the atmosphere redolent with perfume. The expression -
"3irslçorat hat!
‘uttered by Harivāhana before he was introduced to Tilakamañjari by Malayasundarī is self-explanatory in so far as the Nāgarakavrtta' of Kāmasūtra implies the custom of living the life of a citizen or man about the town who according to Vātsyāyana was required to follow a definite line of action in life particularly when he was endowed with a household with the espousal of a wife etc. "Nāgarakavrtta' here means "the conductor behaviour of a man about the town" - who could be entitled to the privileges of Vātsyāyana's conception only when he took to the life of a householder or was just on the brink of taking to it.
Of the festivals Dhanapāla has mentioned - 'Şaşthījāgara', 'Yātrotsava" 'Kaumudīmahotsava', 'Madanatrayodasīyātrā', and Madhumāsasya Suddhatrayodasi 'Madanotsava', 'Madanayātrā,!!! 'Yātrā', 12 'Caitrīyātrā',13 etc. Of these "Şaşthījāgara or prajāgra is a festal gathering celebrated on the sixth night after the birth of a child wherein Şaşthidevī (TM II. p.185, L-1) a deity is believed to protect the life of a child, the sixth of the sixteen mātřkās.
1. TM. Vol. III p. 173. 2. यत्र सायन्तनस्नानार्द्रवपुषां द्रविडयोषितामसान्द्रलग्नस्य हरिद्राद्रवरसस्य च्छायया पिञ्जरिततनुकिरणकन्दलो
aferentahab ufysg cinia 4GHUTAN YOU PUTIA: 1 Ibid. p. 174, Vol. III. 3. Ibid. p. 174 verse 1 Vol. III. 4. Ibid. Sm. ed. p. 357. 5. K. SU T. 4. 1-4 part I pp 125-128. 6. TM Vol. II p. 186, Vol. II p. 185. 7. Ibid. Vol. III p. 187, Vol. II p. 241, Vol. II p. 325. 8. Ibid. Vol. III p. 192, Vol. II p. 251. 9. Ibid. Sm ed. p. 298. 10. Ibid. Sm. ed. p. 300, Sm. ed. p. 310. 11. Ibid. Sm, ed. p. 303. 12. Ibid. Sm. ed. p. 324, Sm. ed. p. 344. 13. Ibid. Sm. ed. p. 322.
