2. Artha Sastra III. iii. 154.

3. Artha Sastra Bk. III. IV. P. 159; here Kautilya uses ‘Kumari’ for the bride though she is married. Hence the meaning of Kumari must have undergone transformation by this time and it differed from the meaning given in the Vedas.

4. Bk. III. Ch. II. p. 152.

5. Bk. III. Ch. II, p. 153.

6. Artha Sastra III. ii. p. 153.

7. Artha Sastra III. ii, P. 154.

8. Bk. III. Ch. IV p. 158.

9. Bk. III. Ch. V. p. 161. [Bibliotheca Samskrita-No. 37].

10. Bk. III. Ch. VI p. 162.

11. Bk. III. Ch. VI. p. 163.

12. Bk IV. Ch. XII, p. 230 or p. 258 of Dr. Sama Sastry’s edition.

13. Bk. IV. Ch. X11, P. 231.

14. Bk. I. Ch. 20. P. 40.

15. Artha Sastra by Sama Sastry P. 42.

16. Artha Sastra Bk. I. Ch. 20, P. 41.

16-a. Raghu I. 32 IV, 68. 87; VI. 48; XVI, 58 Kumarasambhavam VII. 73; Uttararamacharitam XVIII, I Kathasaritsagara XII, 55; Mahabharata, III. 23. 25.

17. Panini 111, 2. 36.

18. Act II. sl. 4.

19. Vatsyayana: Bombay Ed. Sutra 83.

20. Vatsyayana-Kamasutra-P.223 - Sutra 37.

21.Avimaraka Act II, 8, P. 75; Vol.II. Punjab University oriental Publications No. 13.

22. Act. III. P. 26.

23. Ch. VII, 116.