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THE PHILOSOPHY OF PLEASURE
have been. Among these inay be named Pancasāyaka, “The God with the Five Arrows," composed some time after the eleventh century A.D.; Rutirahasya, "The Secret Doctrine of Love's Delight," which is somewhat earlier than the thirteenth century; and Anangaranga, “The Stage of the Bodiless God," dating probably from the sixteenth century A.D. Occasional fragments preserved in the l'panişads also serve to indicate the rich, profound, and holy awe in which the sacred act was held, through which the God of gods continued his creation, pressing it on through the generations of the great Brāhmanic and the great kingly houses. The knowledge of that crotic practical philosophy is for the present all but lost."
Editor's note: Here Dr. Zimmer's notes on this subject break off. His intcntion was to continue his study with an analysis of the textbooks of acting (cf. supra, pp. 39-40), and to amplity his treatment of the earlier tradition by reviewing the pertinent passages in the Upanisads. The chapter is given above represents but a prom y sketch.
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