Download or read book Kamasutra written by Vātsyāyana and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana written by Vātsyāyana and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book K ma s tra written by Vātsyāyana and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kama Sutra of Vatsayana written by Vatsayana and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1991-08-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1964 publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation marked the first wide appearance in English of the Kama Sutra and was celebrated as a literary event of highest importance. As vital to an understanding of ancient Indian civilization as the works of Plato and Aristotle are to the West, the Kama Sutra has endured for 1,700 years as an indisputable classic of world literature. Written with frankness and unassuming candor, the Kama Sutra remains one of the most readable and enjoyable of all the classics of antiquity. A work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry, and sexology, the Kama Sutra's importance is so great that it has at the same time both affected Indian civilization and remained an indispensable key to understanding it.
Download or read book The Book of Love written by James McConnachie and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “enticing . . . elegant and stylish” biography of the ancient Hindu manuscript that became the world’s most famous sex manual (The New York Review of Books) The Kamasutra is one of the world’s best-known yet least understood texts, its title instantly familiar but its contents widely misconstrued as a how-to guide of acrobatic sexual techniques. Yet the book began its life in third-century India as something quite different: a vision of a life of urbane sophistication, with advice on matters from friendship to household decoration. Celebrated, then neglected, the Kamasutra was very nearly lost—until an outrageous adventurer brought it to the West, earning literary immortality. In lively, lucid prose, James McConnachie provides a rare look at the exquisite civilization that produced this cultural cornerstone. He details the quest of explorer Richard Burton, who—with his coterie of libertines—unleashed the Kamasutra on Victorian society as a slap at its prudishness. And he describes the Kamasutra’s exile to the pornographic underground, until the end of the Lady Chatterley obscenity ban thrust it once more into contentious daylight. The first work to tell the full story of the Kamasutra, The Book of Love explores how a way of looking at the world came to be cradled between book covers—and survived.
Download or read book The Kama Sutra of Vatsayana written by Vatsayana and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 1991-08-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1964 publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation marked the first wide appearance in English of the Kama Sutra and was celebrated as a literary event of highest importance. As vital to an understanding of ancient Indian civilization as the works of Plato and Aristotle are to the West, the Kama Sutra has endured for 1,700 years as an indisputable classic of world literature. Written with frankness and unassuming candor, the Kama Sutra remains one of the most readable and enjoyable of all the classics of antiquity. A work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry, and sexology, the Kama Sutra's importance is so great that it has at the same time both affected Indian civilization and remained an indispensable key to understanding it.
Download or read book The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana written by Richard F. Burton and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated by Richard F. Burton We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.
Download or read book The Kama Sutra written by Vatsyayana and published by Watkins Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Complete Kama Sutra written by and published by Park Street Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Classical Hindu Erotology written by Vātsyāyana and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In translating the Anunga Runga, it was discovered that the name of Vatsyayana was frequently mentioned. The Pandits wording on the translation stated that Vatsyayana was the most important of all writers on Hindu erotology, and they claimed that no library was complete without his worlds, though it is almost impossible to find any extant copies today. When eventually a manuscript of the Kama Sutra was found in Bombay, it was found to be so defective that the Sanskrit scholars had to write to Benares, Calcutta and Jaipur to try to get other copies of the work. Then these copies were compared along with a commentary called the Jayamangla, and a final revised version was prepared. This is the copy that was used for the English translation of 1885. In fact, a letter from one of the Pandits who worked on the translation states: ‘This manuscript has been corrected by me after comparing jour different copies of the work. I was helped by a commentary called Jayamangla to correct certain passages of the first five scripts, but the rest was very difficult to correct. With the exception of one copy, all the rest were full of faults. All the same, I considered as correct the passages on which all jour copies were in accord. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana contains 1250 verses divided into parts. These parts are divided into chapters, and the latter are again divided into paragraphs. Nothing is known about the author. His name was probably Mallinga or Mrillana, Vatsyayana being his family name. It is impossible to fix the dates of his life or when he wrote his great work. One concludes, however, that he lived some time between the first and sixth centuries A.D., because he states that Shatakarni Shatavahana, King of Kuntal, failed his wife, Malayavati, by striding her during the passion of intercourse with an instrument known as kartari. This king is supposed to have lived in the First Century A.D., so Vatsyayana must have lived later. On the other hand, Virahamihira, who lived in the 6th Century A.D., borrows a great deal from Vatsyayana in his treatise of love, Brihatsanhita. Therefore, it is assumed that Vatsyayana lived after the First Century A.D. and before the 6th Century.
Download or read book The Kama Sutra of Vatsyasyana written by Vātsyāyana and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kama Sutra written by Mallanaga Vatsyayana and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kama Sutra, is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by the Indian scholar Vatsyayana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sex. K ma means sensual or sexual pleasure, and s tra are the guidlines of yoga, the word itself means thread in Sanskrit. The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts known generically as Kama Shastra). Traditionally, the first transmission of Kama Shastra or "Discipline of Kama" is attributed to Nandi the sacred bull, Shiva's doorkeeper, who was moved to sacred utterance by overhearing the lovemaking of the god and his wife Parvati and later recorded his utterances for the benefit of mankind."
Download or read book Kamasutra written by Wendy Doniger and published by Running Press. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Miniature Edition™ abridgment of one of the world's best-known texts is accompanied by lush, sensuous illustrations. The oldest existing Hindu book of erotic love, the Kamasutra still has much to offer modern lovers looking for new paths to pleasure and enlightenment.
Download or read book The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana written by Vatsyayana and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-08-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Vatsyayana - The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Richard Francis Burton is an edition of the ancient Indian text on sexuality and emotional needs. Vatsayana was an ancient Indian philosopher who lived during the second or third century. Although it is often thought of as a sex manual, it is much more, with guides on living well, the nature of love, and finding a partner. Indeed, Vatsyayana says himself: 'This work is not to be used merely as an instrument for satisfying our desires'. Burton did not in fact translate the Kama Sutra - it was translated by the Indian scholar Bhagwan Lal Indraji. It was edited by Burton to suit prevailing British attitudes to sex, but was still banned in England and the United States until 1962. Other criticisms levelled at Burton's translation is that instead of using English words for the sex organs, he uses the words 'lingam' and 'yoni', despite those words not appearing in the original work. This was seen as an attempt to distance them and make them 'other', rather than about English people's sexual organs. He also removes the agency of women, and where in the original, women's words are direct quotes, in the Burton translation, women's words are removed and put into the passive state (i.e., A woman saying 'Stop!' becomes 'She continually utters words expressive of prohibition'). Despite all this, it has been such an influential translation that even modern editions in the Hindi language are re-translations of the Burton version.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.
