 The well-known treatise on sexual behaviour, the "Kama Sutra" (301–600), also mentions Ahalya and Indra while discussing how lust destroys men.However, it also urges men to seduce women by telling the romantic tales of Ahalya.The sixth-century Tamil epic "Manimekalai"
alludes to her tale warning how the gods also do not remained untouched by illicit love.