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| kamasutra a tale of love english: The Book of Love James McConnachie, 2009-05-26 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. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: KAMA : The Story of the Kama Sutra Misra, Jaya , 2018-05-05 Who was Vatsyayana? What motivated this intriguing personality in the third century to compile ancient erotic texts, replete with his witty aphorisms, into the Kama Sutra, the ultimate treatise on love and the art of lovemaking? Kama is a fictionalised account of the life and times of Vatsyayana. Seemingly, a manual for the hedonist about town, the Kama Sutra reveals another tale—written in blood—of broken hearts, lyrical violence, ageless love, and unbridled lust! Set in 273 AD, in a land fraught with war and unrest, Kama is the story of a catastrophic day in a writer-artist’s life that sets him off on a journey unto himself, beyond the boundaries of love, family and betrayal. This fast-paced story of tragedy and triumph beguiles and captivates as it flits seamlessly between an agonising past, an erotic present and a cataclysmic future. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Mallanaga Vatsyayana, 2021-04-15 The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana by Vatsyayana 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 Vātsyāyana. 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 a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual. Contrary to popular perception, especially in the western world, 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 does reveal that Vatsyayana lived the life of a religious student, likely in Benares, and spent his time engaged in the contemplation of the highest Deity. Scholars believe that the tone Vatsyayana takes towards youth in the Kama Sutra suggests that he likely spent many years studying religion before beginning his life's work compiling the wisdom of the sages. Indeed, Vatsyayana was less of a groundbreaking philosopher and apparently more of a diligent academician. Besides transcribing the Kama Sutra more than 300 years after the Shastras had already been passed down, he also transcribed the Nyaya Sutras, an ancient Indian text of philosophy that was composed by the buddha Gotama in the 2nd century B.C. Whereas the Kama Sutra tackles kama (or sensual pleasures), the Nyaya Sutra delineates paths for achieving moksha, or spiritual liberation from the cycle of birth and death. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: The Complete Kama Sutra , 1994-01-01 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. |
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| kamasutra a tale of love english: Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics Richard Shusterman, 2018-02-12 This collection of essays explores the crucial connections between aesthetic experience and the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, while further advancing inquiry in both. After the editor’s introduction and three articles examining philosophical accounts of embodiment and aesthetic experience in existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics, and pragmatism, the book’s nine remaining articles apply somaesthetic theory to the fine arts (including detailed studies of the body’s role in painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, music, photography, and cinema) but also to diverse arts of living, considering such topics as cosmetics and sexual practice. These interdisciplinary, multicultural essays are written by a distinctively international group of experts, ranging from Asia (China and India) to Europe (Denmark, Finland, Hungary, and Italy) and the United States. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: Thinking Through the Body Richard Shusterman, 2012-09-17 A richly rewarding vision of the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics, with fourteen essays by the originator of the field. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: Redeeming the Kamasutra Wendy Doniger, 2016-02-11 The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken as a matter of national shame rather than pride - and in the rest of the world it is a source of amused amazement and inspires magazine articles that offer mattress-quaking sex styles such as the backstairs boogie and the spider web. 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. She reveals fascinating aspects of the Kamasutra as a guide to the art of living for the cosmopolitan beau monde of ancient India: its emphasis on grooming and etiquette (including post-coital conversation), the study and practice of the arts (ranging from cooking and composing poetry to coloring one's teeth and mixing perfumes), and discretion and patience in conducting affairs (especially adulterous affairs). In its encyclopedic social and psychological narratives, it also displays surprisingly modern ideas about gender and role-playing, female sexuality, and homosexual desire. Even as she draws our attention to the many ways in which the Kamasutra challenges the conventions of its time (and often ours) - in dismissing procreation as the aim of sex, for instance - Doniger also shows us how it perpetuates attitudes that have continued to darken human sexuality: passages that twin passion with violence, for example, and those that explain away women's protests and exclamations of pain as ploys to excite their male partners. In these attitudes, as in its more enlightened observations on sexual love, we see the nearly two- thousand-year-old Kamasutra mirror twenty-first-century realities. 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. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: English, August Upamanyu Chatterjee, 2006-04-04 Agastya Sen, known to friends by the English name August, is a child of the Indian elite. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. August himself has just landed a prize government job. The job takes him to Madna, “the hottest town in India,” deep in the sticks. There he finds himself surrounded by incompetents and cranks, time wasters, bureaucrats, and crazies. What to do? Get stoned, shirk work, collapse in the heat, stare at the ceiling. Dealing with the locals turns out to be a lot easier for August than living with himself. English, August is a comic masterpiece from contemporary India. Like A Confederacy of Dunces and The Catcher in the Rye, it is both an inspired and hilarious satire and a timeless story of self-discovery. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: The Kama Sutra Vatsyayana, 2022-12-26 One of the best English translations of this ancient Indian treatise on politics, social mores, love, and intimacy are the Kama Sutra, which Mallanaga Vatsyayana wrote in the second century CE. Its clean presentation raised the bar for Sanskrit translation. The Kama Sutra is a unique combination of sexology, society, psychology. It has been hailed as a great work of Indian literature for more than 1,700 years and has served as a window for the West into the mysticism and culture of the East. The Kama Sutra, a prehistoric Indian literature, is regarded as the most important Sanskrit study of human sexuality. The Kama Sutra remains one of the most accessible and entertaining of all the ancient classics, having been written with frankness and unassuming simplicity. The Kama Sutra is so significant as a work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, theology, science, and sexology that it simultaneously had an impact on Indian civilization and remained a crucial component in understanding it. |
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| kamasutra a tale of love english: The Ascetic of Desire Sudhir Kakar, 2001-06 The time is the fourth century AD, the golden age of Indian history. The locale: an ashram in the woods a little outside Varanasi. Every morning, Vatsyayana, author of the Kamasutra, recounts stories from his childhood and youth to a young pupil who plans to write the great sage's biography. Little is known of Vatsyayana's life, and the young scholar puts the pieces together in his mind along with relevant slokas of erotic wisdom from the Kamasutra, which he has learnt by heart. The story that unfolds is fascinating. Vatsyayana's mother Avantika and her sister Chandrika are famous courtesans in a brothel at Kausambi. From them and their various lovers Vatsyayana gains his first indelible impressions of sexual artifice. With characteristic insight, Kakar plumbs the psychological depths of a plethora of characters who are at various stages of discovering their sexual identities. What emerges is a powerful narrative of lust and sensuality imbued with an old-world charm and a surprising sense of irony. |
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| kamasutra a tale of love english: Sex and the Perfect Lover Mabel Iam, 2006-10-24 Your dreams of sexual pleasure are about to come true. No age, time, place, or body constraints can prevent you from becoming the lover you desire to be. A bestseller around the world, Sex and the Perfect Lover has become the definitive guide to improving your sexual experience. Inside, discover how to: Learn and develop sexual magnetism Become an irresistible, fascinating, unforgettable lover Overcome sexual blocks and inhibitions Achieve multiple orgasms Stimulate a woman's G-spot Practice Kama Sutra techniques with the help of amazing illustrations and personal tips from the author Make your relationship sacred and feel inner divinity while making love Find and attract your soul mate This book will become your eternal companion and trusted adviser -- all of your needs and doubts about eroticism will be eased by Iam's tried-and-true advice. From your first kiss to sexual ecstasy, Mabel Iam guides you along the path to an intense pleasure that only love and sex can bring. |
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| kamasutra a tale of love english: The Dot Peter H. Reynolds, 2013-09-10 Features an audio read-along! With a simple, witty story and free-spirited illustrations, Peter H. Reynolds entices even the stubbornly uncreative among us to make a mark -- and follow where it takes us. Her teacher smiled. Just make a mark and see where it takes you. Art class is over, but Vashti is sitting glued to her chair in front of a blank piece of paper. The words of her teacher are a gentle invitation to express herself. But Vashti can’t draw - she’s no artist. To prove her point, Vashti jabs at a blank sheet of paper to make an unremarkable and angry mark. There! she says. That one little dot marks the beginning of Vashti’s journey of surprise and self-discovery. That special moment is the core of Peter H. Reynolds’s delicate fable about the creative spirit in all of us. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: Kama Sutra Vatsyayana, 2012-01-31 A gorgeous deluxe edition of the world's most celebrated guide to life, love, relationships and pleasure Little is known about Vatsyayana, who is reputed to have composed the Kama Sutra while observing a celibate's life in full meditation. In Sanskrit the word kama means desire, especially for sensual pleasure, and its proper pursuit was considered an essential part of a young, urbane gentleman's well-rounded education. Untold numbers of readers are curious about the Kama Sutra but put off by its clichéd image as an erotic Oriental curiosity. This elegant edition offers a compelling modern translation of a classic Indian masterpiece-and a wry and entertaining account of human desire and foibles. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: Rekha Yasser Usman, 2016 RekhaÕs sexual openness raised eyebrows and rattled people. Bollywood wasn't ready for such an irrepressible woman, and tried to suppress her. This book tells the truth about her relationship with the reigning superstar of the time, her many other lovers, and the shocking suicide of her husband |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: The Four Hundred Songs of War and Wisdom George L. Hart, Hank Heifetz, 2002-08-21 Two prominent translators present the first complete English-language edition of one of India's greatest works of classical literature: the Purananuru. This anthology of four hundred poems by more than 150 poets between the first and third centuries CE in old Tamil—the literary language of ancient Tamilnadu—was composed before Aryan influence had penetrated the south. It is thus a unique testament to pre-Aryan India. Beyond its importance for understanding the development of South Asia's history, culture, religion, and linguistics, the Purananuru is a great work of literature, reflecting accurately and profoundly the life of southern India 2,000 years ago. One of the few works of classical India that confronts life without the insulation of a philosophical facade and that makes no basic assumptions about karma and the afterlife, the Purananuru has universal appeal. It faces the world as a great and unsolved mystery, delving into living and dying, despair, love, poverty, and the changing nature of existence. To this hidden gem of world literature George L. Hart and Hank Heifetz add a helpful appendix, an annotated bibliography, and an excellent introduction describing the work and placing it in its social and historical context. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: Simhāsana Dvātriṃśikā , 1998 Classic Tales Of Courage And Compassion The Fabled Monarch Vikramaditya Is Considered A Model Of Kingly Virtues, And His Reign A Golden Age. These Famous Stories Narrated By The Thirty-Two Statuettes Of Nymphs Supporting The Magic Throne Of Vikramaditya Extol His Courage, Compassion And Extraordinary Magnanimity. They Are Set In A Framework Recounting The Myths Of His Birth, Accession, Adventures And Death In Battle, After Which The Throne Remained Concealed Till Its Discovery In A Later Age. A Fascinating Mix Of Marvellous Happenings, Proverbial Wisdom And Sage Precepts, These Popular Tales Are Designed To Entertain As Well As Instruct. Many Have Passed Into Folk Literature. The Original Author Of The Simhasana Dvatrimsika Is Unknown. The Present Text Is Dated To The Thirteenth Century Ad. It Exists In Four Main Recensions, From Which Extracts Have Been Compiled Together For The First Time, In This Lively And Faithful Translation Of This Celebrated Classic By A Renowned Sanskritist. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: Encyclopedia of Sex and Sexuality Heather L. Armstrong, 2021-03-01 Providing a comprehensive framework for the broad subject of human sexuality, this two-volume set offers a context of historical development, scientific discovery, and sociopolitical and sociocultural movements. The broad topic of sex—encompassing subjects as varied as sexuality, sexual and gender identity, abortion, and such crimes as sexual assault—is one of the most controversial in American society today. This two-volume encyclopedic set provides readers with more than 450 entries on the subject, offering a comprehensive overview of major sexuality issues in American and global culture. Themes that run throughout the volumes include sexual health and reproduction, sexual identity and orientation, sexual behaviors and expression, the history of sex and sexology, and sex and society. Entries cover a breadth of subjects, such as the major contributors to the field of sexology; the biological, psychological, and cultural dimensions of sex and sexuality; and how the modern-day political climate and the government play a major role in determining attitudes and beliefs about sex. Written in clear, jargon-free language, this set is ideal for students as well as general readers. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: The Passion Book Gendun Chopel, 2018-04-18 “[A] joyful—and explicit—guide to sex. . . . [V]iews sexual pleasure as a human right and stresses the importance of female consent and equality.” —Ian Kerner, CNN The Passion Book is the most famous work of erotica in the vast literature of Tibetan Buddhism, written by the legendary scholar and poet Gendun Chopel (1903–1951). Soon after arriving in India in 1934, he discovered the Kama Sutra. Realizing that this genre of the erotic was unknown in Tibet, he set out to correct the situation. His sources were two: classical Sanskrit works and his own experiences with his lovers. Completed in 1939, his “treatise on passion” circulated in manuscript form in Tibet, scandalizing and arousing its readers. Gendun Chopel here condemns the hypocrisy of both society and church, portraying sexual pleasure as a force of nature and a human right for all. On page after page, we find the exuberance of someone discovering the joys of sex, made all the more intense because Chopel had taken the monastic vow of celibacy in his youth and had only recently renounced it. He describes in ecstatic and graphic detail the wonders he discovered. In these poems, written in beautiful Tibetan verse, we hear a voice with tints of irony, self-deprecating wit, and a love of women not merely as sources of male pleasure but as full partners in the play of passion. “Explicit, unabashed, detailed, and encyclopedic . . . [A] joyful book.” —Tricycle “An enchanting new translation . . . . Chopel’s writing couldn’t be more timely. . . . He confronted the patriarchy, challenging those who dehumanized women or thought the poor deserved less.” —Los Angeles Review of Books |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: The Undead Kama Sutra Mario Acevedo, 2009-10-13 Ex-infantryman Felix Gomez came back from Iraq decidedly undead. Back home in Denver, he embarked upon a new career where nighttime work is the norm: private investigator. Since then, he's managed to survive lustful extraterrestrials, manic nymphomaniacs, and x-rated bloodsuckers, while satisfying his own unorthodox hungers with blood-laced Mexican food. But some thirsts aren't as easily assuaged, and that's where The Undead Kama Sutra comes in—a hands-on manual that illustrates how sex can help a lonely vampire increase his psychic energies. Felix's search for missing parts of the coveted manuscript is, of course, purely professional. And now the dying words of an alien interloper (Find Goodman and save Earth's women!) are thrusting the immortal (if he's lucky) P.I. and a bodacious undead sexpert, Carmen Arellano, into a seamy mess of otherworldly abductions, shady military irregularities, and unexplained murder. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: Postcoloniality and Indian English Poetry SUBRAT KUMAR SAMAL, 2015-09-16 This book aims at study and analysis of the poetry of the first four major poets of the postcolonial trend in the Indian context. It examines and explores the various aspects and characteristics of their poetry which can qualify them on the double standards of both being Indian and modern at the same time in a justifiable manner. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: The Rose Tiffany Reisz, 2019-06-01 Bestselling author Tiffany Reisz returns with an imaginative tale of lust and magic, and the dangers unleashed when the two are combined... On the day of Lia's university graduation party, her parents - wealthy art collectors with friends in high places - give her a beautiful wine cup, a rare artefact decorated with roses. It's a stunning gift, and one that August Bowman, a friend of her parents and a guest at Lia's party, also has his eye on. The cup, August tells her, is known as the Rose Kylix, and it's no ordinary cup. It was used in the temple ceremonies of Eros, Greek god of erotic love, and has the power to bring the most intimate sexual fantasies to life. But Lia is sceptical of August's claims of the cup's mythology and magic - after all, he's a collector himself, and she suspects he just wants to get his hands on this impressive piece of art. So he dares her to try it for herself, and when Lia drinks from the Rose Kylix she is suddenly immersed in an erotic myth so vivid it seems real - as though she's living out the most sensual fantasy with August by her side... Realising the true power of this ancient and dangerous relic, Lia is even more wary of giving it up, though August insists it is only safe with him. He's willing to pay the full value of the cup, but Lia has another type of trade in mind. One that finds them more tangled up in each other - and in fantasy - than either was prepared for. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: The Nunnery Tales Anonymous, 2017-06-19 A classic piece of Victorian Erotica published in 1866, this bawdy tale is about a young man who is dressed as a nun, hiding in a nunnery, where all kinds of sexual exploits are to be had. This is Victorian erotica for open minded adults only. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: Urban Tantra, Second Edition Barbara Carrellas, 2017-11-21 If you think sexual and spiritual bliss can't be found in today's fast-paced world, you haven't experienced Urban Tantra. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of Urban Tantra, acclaimed sex educator Barbara Carrellas radically updates the ancient practice of Tantra for modern sexual explorers desiring to discover new frontiers. With a juicy mix of erotic how-to and heart-centered spiritual wisdom, this updated edition includes a brand-new introduction, up-to-date references and resources, a new take on the possibilities and responsibilities of Tantra in today’s world, plus new and cutting-edge information to reach an expanded community—added information on multi-partner play, more intersections for Tantra and BDSM, practices for asexuals and aromantics, expanded practices for trans and gender nonconforming people, and more. With more than one hundred easy-to-follow techniques for expanded orgasmic states and solo and partner play (as well as more adventurous practices), this in-depth guide reveals the delicious worlds of ecstasy available to all, no matter one's gender, sexual preference, or erotic tastes. Urban Tantra expands the notions of pleasure and opens new heights of intimacy and sexual fulfillment. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: Love in a Dead Language Lee Siegel, 1999-05-15 A California professor translating the Kamasutra seduces a student to gain practical experience. The girl is not even an Indian, but a Californian of Hindu extraction and on his return from India, where he baited her with a field trip, the prof lands in hot water. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: The Perfumed Garden ʻUmar ibn Muḥammad Nafzāwī, 1989 The Perfumed Garden - for the Repose of the Mind is a classic work of Arab erotica offering a uniquely entertaining collection of tales, frank and sound advice on sexual relations, and a poetic style of great literary merit. This is a book which delights in the humorous possibilities of sexual expression, and treats these in an urbane style reminiscent of Chaucer and Boccaccio. Also included in the first illustrated edition is a remarkable collection--previously unpublished--of early Mughal and other rare erotic paintings. Reproductions of exquisite tilework and friezes offer a rare glimpse of the Arabian palaces and harems that provide much of the inspiration for the original text. Over 50 full-color illustrations. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: The Kamasutra Vatsyayana, 2012-09-01 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. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: Waltz into Darkness Cornell Woolrich, 2021-09-02 A dark tale of the destructive power of love and obsession from 'The supreme master of suspense' NEW YORK TIMES 'The father of the modern suspense story' LA TIMES When Louis Durand first meets his bride-to-be after a months-long courtship by mail, he's shocked that she doesn't match the photographs sent with her correspondence. But Durand has not exactly been truthful, either, concealing the details of his wealth. Mostly, he feels fortunate she is so much more beautiful than he expected. Soon after they marry, however, he becomes increasingly convinced that the woman in his life is not the same woman with whom he exchanged letters - and then she suddenly disappears with his fortune. Alone and desperate, Louis becomes obsessed with finding Julia and bringing her to justice - but it is only when he finally tracks her down that the nightmare truly begins... |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: The Book of Love James McConnachie, 2008-05-27 An engaging, enlightening biography of the ancient Hindu manuscript that became the world's most famous sex manual The Kamasutra is one of the world's best-known yet least-understood texts, its title instantly familiar but its actual contents widely misconstrued. In the popular imagination, it is a work of practical pornography, a how-to guide of absurdly acrobatic sexual techniques. Yet the book began its long life in third-century India as something quite different: a seven-volume vision of an ideal life of urbane sophistication, offering advice on matters from friendship to household decoration. Over the ensuing centuries, the Kamasutra was first celebrated, then neglected, and very nearly lost—until an outrageous adventurer introduced it to the West and earned literary immortality. In lively and lucid prose, James McConnachie provides a rare, intimate look at the exquisite civilization that produced this cultural cornerstone. He details the quest of famed explorer Richard F. Burton, who—along with his clandestine coterie of libertines and iconoclasts—unleashed the Kamasutra on English society as a deliberate slap at Victorian prudishness and paternalism. And he describes how the Kamasutra was driven underground into the hands of pirate pornographers, 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 remarkable way of looking at the world came to be cradled between book covers—and survived. |
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| kamasutra a tale of love english: 34 24 34 SUNEAL PATEL NEELAWAR, 2024-02-15 At the age of 10, Siddanth Rao, a rural boy, attended school in a torn uniform. By the time he turned 21, he had emerged as the country's most prominent fashion icon, swiftly becoming an overnight millionaire. However, his unfulfilled desire for 'fame & success' drove him to pursue unbounded recognition. Motivated by the allure of fame, Siddanth became entrapped in a dangerous web of lust, greed, and deceit. His world was shattered by a sudden and unforeseen incident, compelling him to confront his inner demons and rediscover the true meanings of success, happiness, and love. As a 21-year-old who had achieved so much at a young age, Siddanth faced crucial decisions. What would he choose to live for in the remaining years? How does one survive when someone renounces friends, family, love, and the so-called fame? Where does this journey ultimately lead him? Jump into Siddanth’s arousing coming-of-age adventure that goes beyond glamour and glitters but is filled with strong yet unpredictable drama. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: Kamasutra Vātsyāyana, 2002 The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. It is about the art of living - about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs - and also about the positions in sexual intercourse. It was composed inSanskrit, the literary language of ancient India, sometime in the third century of the common era, probably in North India. It combines an encyclopedic coverage of all imaginable aspects of sex with a closely observed sexual pyschology and a dramatic, novelistic narrative of seduction,consummation, and disentanglement. Best known in English through the highly mannered, padded, and inaccurate nineteenth-century translation of Sir Richard Burton, the text is presented here in an entirely new translation into clear, vivid, sexually frank English, together with three commentaries:translated excerpts from the earliest and most famous Sanskrit commentary (13th century) and from a twentieth-century Hindi commentary, and explanatory notes by the two translators.The lively and entertaining introduction by Wendy Doniger discusses the history of the text and its reception in India and Europe, analyses its attitudes toward gender and sexual violence, and sets it in the context of ancient Indian social theory, scientific method, and sexual ethics. |
| kamasutra a tale of love english: Kamasutra Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Vātsyāyana, 2009-03-26 The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. About the art of living as well as about the positions in sexual intercourse, it is here newly translated into clear, vivid, sexually frank English together with three commentaries: excerpts from the earliest and most famous Sanskrit commentary (13th century), a twentieth-century Hindi commentary, and explanatory notes by the translators. The edition is enhanced by a selection of colour plates from an early edition of the work. |
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Kamasutra, the oldest extant Indian prose treatise on the subject of pleasure (kama)—sexual pleasure, desire, love, and the pleasures of good living generally conceived.
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Aug 14, 2024 · Kama Sutra is big on giving pleasure, and what better way than with a little oral loving? "The entire Kama Sutra talks about pleasure and the build-up to pleasure," Anand …
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Aug 8, 2023 · Throughout its centuries-long history, the Kama Sutra has become an influential guide to achieve ultimate satisfaction in the sexual and emotional relationship between two …
18 Kama Sutra Sex Positions That Couples Can Easily Pull Off
Oct 19, 2023 · There's a reason why the Kama Sutra has been a go-to sex position guide for thousands of years: It's full of practical, actionable tips for couples who want to mix up their …
7 Kamasutra Sex positions you must know - Times of India
Apr 13, 2017 · Have you tried Kamasutra sex positions ever ? Try these 7 best Kamasutra inspired sex positions that were most popular in ancient times.
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When you find the right depth and the right angle, the Kama Sutra Bull is sure to delight. There’s nothing like doggystyle sex for deep penetration, but if you really want to ring her bell, try the …
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The Kamasutra, states the Indologist and Sanskrit literature scholar Ludo Rocher, discourages adultery but then devotes "not less than fifteen sutras (1.5.6–20) to enumerating the reasons …
Kamasutra | Hinduism, Pleasure, Sex, History, Text ...
Kamasutra, the oldest extant Indian prose treatise on the subject of pleasure (kama)—sexual pleasure, desire, love, and the pleasures of good living generally conceived.
17 Best Kamasutra Sex Positions For Female Orgasm, Per Experts
Aug 14, 2024 · Kama Sutra is big on giving pleasure, and what better way than with a little oral loving? "The entire Kama Sutra talks about pleasure and the build-up to pleasure," Anand …
Exploring the Ancient Art of Love: The Life-Changing Power of ...
Aug 8, 2023 · Throughout its centuries-long history, the Kama Sutra has become an influential guide to achieve ultimate satisfaction in the sexual and emotional relationship between two …
18 Kama Sutra Sex Positions That Couples Can Easily Pull Off
Oct 19, 2023 · There's a reason why the Kama Sutra has been a go-to sex position guide for thousands of years: It's full of practical, actionable tips for couples who want to mix up their …
7 Kamasutra Sex positions you must know - Times of India
Apr 13, 2017 · Have you tried Kamasutra sex positions ever ? Try these 7 best Kamasutra inspired sex positions that were most popular in ancient times.
