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varman's rascally story, exclaims : " Why, you have gone Karnisuta's 

 rough practices one better ! " 



Karnisuta goes, all told, by four names: (i) Muladeva. (2) 

 Mulabhadra, perhaps, " Servant of Roots " : the name is little more 

 than an equivalent of Mfiladeva. (3) Kalarikura, "Shoot of Ac- 

 complishments," that is, " Product of the 64^ kala's," or accomplish- 

 ments, which belong to a routine man of the world, or man about 

 town, the typical nayaka or "hero," a sort of "devil of a fellow," 

 as he is sketched ideally and systematically in the scheme of the 

 (to us) villanous Kamagastras,'' or "Love-Bibles" of India. (4) 

 Karnisuta (Kariilcuta^"), and Karniputra, i. e., "Son of Karni," 

 a mother about whom we hear nothing, perhaps a courtezan. Else 

 we should, according to Hindu models, expect a patronymic, rather 

 than a metronymic. " Sons of maidens " (kumariputra, kanina) 

 are well-known in Sanskrit literature, <?. g., VS. 30. 6; TB. 3. 4. i. 2; 

 Manu 9. 160, 172. In the two Vedic texts he typifies lust or pleas- 

 ure (pramad, pramud). 



This fourth name is similar to that of a frequently mentioned 

 author of amatory literature, namely Goniputraka, Gonikaputra, 

 and Gonikasuta, i. e. " Son of GonI or Gonika." In the introduc- 

 tion to the Paiicasayaka, "Five arrows (of the God of Love)," 

 occurs the expression goniputraka-muladeva-bhanitam, which looks 

 for all the world as tho it meant " Muladeva, the Son of GonI." In 

 the same text Gonlsuta and Mialadeva are mentioned once more, tho 

 not side by side, as authorities ; no other authors are mentioned at all. 

 This also looks as tho the names were interchangeable, especially 

 when we consider that the text is metrical and is liable to require 

 differing quantities in a tetrasyllable ; see Richard Schmidt, " Beitrage 

 zur Indischen Erotik," p. 918 ff. The same author, p. 46, remarks 



s Prabandhacintamani, p. :^2, counts 72 accomplishments. So also Devendra, 

 in the story of Agadadatta (Jacobi's " Ausgewahlte Erzahlungen "), stanza 22. 

 See the list in Prabhavaka-Carita (ed. Hirananda U. Sharma), p. 132. 



3 Not so the Hindus. They regard the Kamagastra as a legitimate 

 Castra. E. g.^ in the Prabandhacintamani, p. 63, Vatsyayana's Kamagastra is 

 regarded as on a par with the three Vedas, the Raghuvaiiga, and the Artha- 

 ijastra (Kautihya) of Canakya. 



10 This spelling due, perhaps, to Prakrit cuta " fallen," the standard ex- 

 pression for passing from a higher to a lower existence in the course of 

 transmigration. 



