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Vatsyayan Gotra is classified under the
Saraswat Brahmin sect. They are generally concentrated in North India.
The Vatsyayan Gotra is a genetic lineage of the Sage Vatsayan and his disciples in the Gurukul in Varanasi. Majority of the disciples were sent to the Himalayan Hindu kingdom to promote not only Hinduism, but to put an end to the pagan ritual sacrifices of the tribal lords in the Himalayan region. The vatsayan missionaries evolved the Tantric goddess Tara to yet another fertility goddess 'Kam-ek-he' worshipped in the Garo hills of the eastern Himalayan hills. The legend of Kamakhya believed to have appeared in the Kaliki Puran with the cult of 'Shakti' in the worship of fertility goddess. The temple of 'Kamakya' was destroyed in the Shan invasion in 12 C. The Vatsayan clans fled through the inner Himalaya to Kashmir. The Vatsayans in the Punjab region have descended from Kashmir. Vatsyayan Gotra claim its lineage from
Maha Rishi Vatsyayan of the Kamasutra fame,although the authourship if the treatise is debated. Families of Vatsyayan Gotra are said to have existed in the town of Pattan in Kashmir and later to a village named Gion in Kashmir, till the 11th century AD. Following annexations by the hands of
Mughal Kings, they were forced to leave their places and migrate to Sind province,while the original migrants descended to the foothills of Shivalliks in remote hill forests to sanctify the fertility goddess, while others settled down near the towns of Kangra and Una of the Undivided Punjab or towns like Hosiyarpur
Theories also postulate that
Acharya Chanakya belonged to the Vatsyayan clan Seeing this experts have fixed the time of Vatsyayan as when Patna was famous as Pataliputra.
Vatsyayans of North and East India (UP, Bihar and Bengal) consider themselves as the descendants of Chanakya.
Vatsyayan was the
Pratisamskrita of the earlier works of Barabhra Muni. Vatsya then redacted the work of Kamasutra. This means that Maharishi Vatsyayan was before Vatsya.
Vatsya was also the commentator of Kashyapa samhita which means that time of Vatsyayan was much before Kautilya thus removing the doubts that Chanakya was Vatsyayan himself.
The name of Vatsyayan also appears in the Vedas as the commentator of Gautam sutra of Nyaya darshan and its time is said to be around 400 BCE
Padma Puran - World Conquest
Once, Sages requested Sutji to describe about Sri Ram's return from Lanka. Sutji narrated the same tale, which Sheshnag had once told Vatsyayan.
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Vatsayana lists out 64 arts to be cultivated to make a person more attractive.Incidentally his recommendations are gender neutral
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