The seventh book, Aupaniṣadika — often titled “Occult Practices” — closes Vātsyāyana’s Kamasūtra with a rich anthology of folk and learned lore. Composed c. 3rd–5th century CE and drawing on Ayurvedic, tantric and popular traditions, it assembles perfumes, aphrodisiacs, charms, mantras and household stratagems used to kindle, sustain or allay desire. Less about positions than the invisible arts around love, its themes unite ritual, psychology, material culture and social reputation. Today it offers historians and readers a vivid window into how premodern India blended medicine, magic and ethics around intimacy — a cultural archive that informs modern scholarship while cautioning against treating its recipes as contemporary prescriptions.