Kama Sutra : A guide to a virtuous and gracious living that discusses the nature of love and family life.
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The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text written by Vātsyāyana. It is widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behaviour in Sanskrit literature.
A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses. "Kāma" which is one of the four goals of Hindu life, means desire including sexual desire, the latter being the subject of the textbook, and "sūtra" 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 western popular perception, the 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, in parts of the world, is presumed or depicted as a synonym for creative sexual positions; in reality, only 20% of the Kama Sutra is about sexual positions. The majority of the book, notes Jacob Levy, is about the philosophy and theory of love, what triggers desire, what sustains it, and how and when it is good or bad.
The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts known generically as Kama Shastra (Sanskrit: Kāma Śāstra).
Historians believe the Kama Sutra to have been composed between 400 BCE and 200 CE.[10] John Keay says that the Kama Sutra is a compendium that was collected into its present form in the 2nd century CE.
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The Kamasutra is a remarkable document, which gives an insight into the social and political ethos of ancient India. It is not just a handbook on sex. The philosophical implications and the opinions it expresses, reflect attitudes of the historical period in which it was written. Vatsayana read and considered the works of ancient authors and compiled the Kamasutra while he was leading the life of a religious student. This abridged and edited version of the ancient literary Classic is richly illustrated with Tarun Chopra's photographs of the works of artists who were inspired by Vatsayana. They state that human life must concern itself with the religious, sexual and artistic experience. The miniature paintings in this book have been taken from various private collections, while the sculptures have been taken from the various ancient and medieval temples spread across the Indian sub-continent.
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Tarun Chopra was born in Delhi but his formative years were spent in Jaipur, wherein began a passion for colour and pageantry of Rajasthan. Desire of learning Spanish brought him to JNU, and later took him to Madrid. On returning, he joined the travel trade and his love for travel and history took him to many exotic parts of this fascinating sub-continent. Being a self-taught photographer his initial encouragement came when an American travel company used his photos to publish their brochure. After that his work was regularly published in the USA, UK and in Spain. He published his first coffee-table book Majestic India in 1995, which has already gone into the third edition. Then followed Majestic Jaipur, The Holy Cow and other Indian Stories, Jain Temples of India, India - Exotic Destination, Kamasutra, Soul of india and Exotic Indian Interiors. This version of the Kamasutra is his ninth book. He lives in Delhi where he is working on his forthcoming books.
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The Kamasutra is not a handbook on sex, it is a classical text with philosphical implications, even though it does not delve on the metaphysical. This title provides information about kamasutra. Kamasutra is perhaps the world's oldest treatise on sex. It is a remarkable document which gives an insight into the social and political ethos of india some 2000 years ago. This book dwells on the third purusharthas, viz., kama or sexual pleasure that is central to the evolution of mankind.here the law states that a sexual intercourse should be more than just an action to procreate - maximum pleasure should be derived from it. What makes the book unique is the fact that many observations made by the author have withstood the test of time and are practical even today.
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The world's oldest and most widely read guide to the pleasures and techniques of sex, the Kama Sutra was compiled in the fourth century A.D. by a Brahmin and religious scholar name Vatsyayana, who worked from texts dating back to the fourth century B.C. Until the present, the only English translation of his Hindu love classic was that of the famous English explorer Sir Richard Burton, published in 1883. Unlike Burton's version, Alain Danielou's new translation preserves the numbered verse divisions of the original and includes two essential commentaries: the Fayamangala commentary, written in Sanskrit by Yashodhara during the Middle Ages, and a modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Whereas Burton's Victorian reluctance to translate certain terms obscured our understanding of the philosophy and techniques of the Kama Sutra, Dani+¬lou has preserved the full explicitness of the original, dealing with everything from the art of scratching to relations with the wives of others. Realistic and pragmatic in its approach, the Kama Sutra deals without ambiguity or hypocrisy with all aspects of sexual life--including marriage, adultery, prostitution, group sex, sadomasochism, male and female homosexuality, and transvestism. The text paints a fascinating portrait of an India whose openness to sexuality gave rise to a highly developed expression of the erotic.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR: ALAIN DANILOU (1907-1994) spent twenty years in India studying music and philosophy with eminent scholars of the Hindu traditions. He is the translator and author of more than thirty books on the religion, history, and arts of India and the Mediterranean, including The Complete Kama Sutra, The Myths and Gods of India, and A Brief History of India.
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