Author: Vatsyayana Publisher: YogaVidya.com ISBN: 0989996638 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 361
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The first compete edition of the Kamasutra. It contains a crisp introduction; the original Sanskrit; a new, accurate and readable English translation; fifty full-page illustrations using period clothing, jewelry, and settings; and a thorough index. Composed almost two thousand years ago, it is surprisingly modern in its depiction of human nature and sexual practices.
Author: Publisher: Park Street Press ISBN: 9780892814923 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 576
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This definitive volume is the first modern translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra to include two essential commentaries: the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and the modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Alain Danilou spent four years comparing versions of the Kama Sutra in Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, and English, drawing on his intimate experience of India, to preserve the full explicitness of the original. I wanted to demystify India, he writes, to show that a period of great civilization, of high culture, is forcibly a period of great liberty.
Author: Vatsyayana Publisher: ISBN: 9781458331090 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Kama Sutra The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Sanskrit text on sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment in life. Attributed to Vātsyāyana, the Kama Sutra is neither exclusively nor predominantly a sex manual on sex positions, but written as a guide to the "art-of-living" well, the nature of love, finding a life partner, maintaining one's love life, and other aspects pertaining to pleasure-oriented faculties of human life.Kamasutra is the oldest surviving Hindu text on erotic love. It is a sutra-genre text with terse aphoristic verses that have survived into the modern era with different bhasya (exposition and commentaries). The text is a mix of prose and anustubh-meter poetry verses. The text acknowledges the Hindu concept of Purusharthas, and lists desire, sexuality, and emotional fulfillment as one of the proper goals of life. Its chapters discuss methods for courtship, training in the arts to be socially engaging, finding a partner, flirting, maintaining power in a married life, when and how to commit adultery, sexual positions, and other topics. The majority of the book is about the philosophy and theory of love, what triggers desire, what sustains it, and how and when it is good or bad.The text is one of many Indian texts on Kama Shastra. It is a much-translated work in Indian and non-Indian languages. The Kamasutra has influenced many secondary texts that followed after the 4th-century CE, as well as the Indian arts as exemplified by the pervasive presence Kama-related reliefs and sculpture in old Hindu temples. Of these, the Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh is a UNESCO world heritage site. Among the surviving temples in north India, one in Rajasthan sculpts all the major chapters and sexual positions to illustrate the Kamasutra. According to Wendy Doniger, the Kamasutra became "one of the most pirated books in English language" soon after it was published in 1883 by Richard Burton. This first European edition by Burton does not faithfully reflect much in the Kamasutra because he revised the collaborative translation by Bhagavanlal Indrajit and Shivaram Parashuram Bhide with Forster Arbuthnot to suit 19th-century Victorian tastes.
Author: Vatsyayana Publisher: Watkins Publishing ISBN: 9781842930656 Category : Erotic literature Languages : en Pages : 0
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This is the only truly authentic translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra from the ancient Sanskrit. This new edition is beautifully produced and illustrated with photos of the famous Indian sculptures from Sacred Temple at Khajuraho, as well as colorful paintings which depict the delightful aspects of courtship and love. Illustrations.
Author: Wendy Doniger Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190499281 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 185
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"In this scholarly and superbly readable book, one of the world's foremost authorities on ancient Indian texts seeks to restore the Kamasutra to its proper place in the Sanskrit canon, as a landmark of India's secular literature. In investigating, and helping us understand, a much celebrated but under-appreciated text, Wendy Doniger has produced a rich and compelling text of her own that will interest, delight, and surprise scholars and lay readers alike"--
Author: Johanina Wikoff Publisher: NAL ISBN: 9781592571840 Category : Kamasutra Languages : en Pages : 404
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The classic how-to on sensuality is now bigger, better, and more satisfying than ever before. The most recognized name in erotic fulfillment now features 40 brand new illustrations by noted artsist Hrana Junto, whose work helped make The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Tantric Sexsuch a hot item. ¬ A consistent top seller ¬ New illustrations by noted artist Hrana Juno, who also illustrated The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Amazing Sex
Author: Vatsyayana Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781512144956 Category : Love Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Kama Sutra The Standard Work on Human Sexual Behavior By Vatsyayana Translated from the Sanscrit In Seven Parts, with Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks. New Edition The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vaatsyayana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses. "Kama" which is one of the four goals of Hindu life, means desire including sexual desire the latter being the subject of the textbook, and "sutra" literally means a thread or line that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual. Contrary to popular perception, especially in the western world, Kama sutra is not exclusively a sex manual; it presents itself as a guide to a virtuous and gracious living that discusses the nature of love, family life and other aspects pertaining to pleasure oriented faculties of human life. The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts known generically as Kama Shastra (Sanskrit: Kama Sastra). Historians attribute Kamasutra to be composed between 400 BCE and 200 CE. John Keay says that the Kama Sutra is a compendium that was collected into its present form in the 2nd century CE.
Author: Vatsyayana Publisher: ISBN: 9781453641446 Category : Languages : en Pages : 146
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The erotic sentiments described in the Hindu love classic the Kama Sutra constitute the most famous work on sex ever created. Written almost 2,000 years ago, the Kama Sutra deals with all aspects of sexual life, including the principles and techniques of sexual pleasure and how to best achieve ecstatic expression of life's beauty.
Author: A N D Haksar Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 9351182010 Category : Design Languages : en Pages : 309
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The Kama Sutra has been published with illustrations before, but never like this! Using the recent, critically acclaimed translation by A.N.D. Haksar, superstar illustrator Marcos Chin has created fifty images which are at once beautiful, provocative, sexy and bursting with energy. Lavishly designed, this luxury edition comes hardbound in a slipcase and makes for a stunning gift.
Author: Vâtsyâyana Publisher: HarperThorsons ISBN: 9780007130931 Category : Sex instruction Languages : en Pages : 0
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The timeless magic of the "Kama Sutra" is explored in this beautifully illustrated, full-color edition. Abridged and annotated. 150 color photos.
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