Vatsyayana
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Vatsya · the good old sage Vatsyayana
in the texts
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Author/compiler of the Kama Sutra, invoked as the authoritative voice resolving the chapter's debates.
Therefore Vatsyayana is of opinion that there are only four kinds of Nayikas, *i.
Vatsyayana is therefore of opinion that the ordinances of religion must be obeyed.
But Vatsyayana is of opinion that this objection does not hold good, for women already know the practice of Kama Sutra, and that practice is derived from the Kama Shastra, or the science of Kama itself.