Aupanishadika, a chapter within Vātsyāyana’s Kāmaśāstra (Kama Sutra), preserves ancient occult practices linked to love and attraction. Composed in late classical India, it catalogs folk rituals, aphrodisiac recipes, talismans, and mantras once thought to aid desire and marital harmony. Key points: herbal preparations, ritual formulae, ethical cautions and social contexts. Today it illuminates intersections of Ayurveda, tantra and popular belief, offering scholars and readers a window into the lived cultural attitudes toward intimacy, medicine and ritual in ancient Indian life.