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Wizards and Kings, or “Tantra beyond the Tantras”
Abstract The Kathāsaritsāgara, examined in Chapter 4, narrates the pursuit of good fortune (artha), of pleasure (kāma) in the form of winning wives, and ultimately of felicity beyond this world, achieved in the form of immortality as a “wizard” or vidyādhara. Its milieu is heavily that of the third of the four varṇas, the vaiśyas, but itopenaire +1 more source