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| kamasutra book english translation: 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 book english translation: The Kama Sutra Vatsyayana, 2004 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. |
| kamasutra book english translation: 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. |
| kamasutra book english translation: 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 book english translation: 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. |
| kamasutra book english translation: 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. |
| kamasutra book english translation: 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 book english translation: 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 book english translation: 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 book english translation: Kāma Sūtra of Vātsyāyana वात्स्यायन, 2014 Ancient classical Sanskrit treatise on love and sex; text with English translation and notes. |
| kamasutra book english translation: The Kama Sutra in 3-D , 1996 Experience the world of sensuous pleasure in a whole new way--through the bestselling phenomenon of illustrated 3-D. Twenty-five of the ancient postures of the Kama Sutra are imaginatively described and mysteriosly illustrated with computer-generated art. If you can unlock the key to its hidden three dimension, you'll be well on your way to unlocking the age-old secrets of erotic pleasure. |
| kamasutra book english translation: The Bhagavad Gita Lars Martin Fosse, 2007-01-01 At last, an edition of the Bhagavad Gita that speaks with unprecedented fidelity and clarity, letting the profound beauty and depth of this classic shine through. It contains an unusually informative introduction, the Sanskrit text of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute’s critical edition, an accurate and accessible English translation, a comprehensive glossary of names and epithets and a thorough index. |
| kamasutra book english translation: The Kama Sutra Vatsyayana Vatsyayana, 2019-05-10 THE KAMA SUTRA BY VATSYAYANA WITH BEAUTIFUL CLASSIC COVER. PERFECTLY FOR EVERYONE WHO LOVES CLASSIC SCIENCE BOOKS OR AS A GIFT FOR YOU LOVED ONE. GET YOURS TODAY! Specifications: Cover Finish: GLOSSY Dimensions: 5,25 x 8 (13,34 x 20,32 cm) Interior: White Paper Pages: 166 |
| kamasutra book english translation: The Shiva Samhita James Mallinson, 2007-01-01 This affordable, authoritative edition of the Shiva Samhita contains a new introduction, the original Sanskrit, a new English translation, nine full-page photographs, and an index. It includes beautiful teachings found nowhere else. This is the first edition of this classic Yoga text to meet both high academic and literary standards, the first to be based on a truly critical study of the Sanskrit manuscripts. It’s for people who practice Yoga, and for anyone with an interest in health and fitness, philosophy, religion, spirituality, mysticism, or meditation. |
| kamasutra book english translation: Mothers, Sex, And Sexuality Michelle Walks, Joani Mortenson, Holly Zwalf, 2020-06-01 Mothers, Sex, and Sexuality talks about things not normally dared spoken out loud—the interconnectedness and conflict between our parental and sexual selves, the taboo of the sexual mother, and why it matters so much to shatter it. What is it about the sexual mother that is incompatible, and at times even disturbing? Why are we threatened by maternal sexuality? And what does this tell us about the structures of gender and power that govern our bodies? Mothers, Sex, and Sexuality presents a rigorous academic analysis of the myriad ways in which the sexual/maternal divide affects women, birthing people, and those of us who assume or are ascribed the title mother. We examine the way we as mothers talk to our daughters about sex, the way we talk about sex in a cultural context, and the deafening silence around sex in a medical system that overlooks maternal sexuality. We return repeatedly to the impact of both Christianity and Hinduism on the mother as someone to be revered but tightly controlled. We embrace the lost eroticism of mothering and hail breastfeeding as a sexual maternal practice, arguing for a new, broader, feminist understanding of sexuality. We discuss the way fat mothers destabalise the heteronormative maternal model, the way kinky queers are reconfiguring the sexual/maternal divide through erotic role-play, and we explore the strange, intense, and romantic domestic relationship that springs up between mothers and nannies—two heterosexual women trapped together in a homoerotic triangulation of need and desire. In a titillating climax we revel in the sexual maternal as embodied through performance art, poetry, installations, and comedy, disrupting queer readings of bodies as we are invited to both fuck, and fuck with, the maternal. This book boldly provides both a challenge to the patriarchal constraints of motherhood and a racy road-map escape route out of the sexual-maternal dichotomy. |
| kamasutra book english translation: Kama Sutra for 21st Century Lovers Anne Hooper, 2003-11-06 Based on erotic positions from classic texts of ancient wisdom this is the classic sex guide for lovers of all ages - the inspirational new sex manual for 21st century lovers. Sensual photography illustrates a range of positions and practices that have been tried and tested through the ages - there's something for everyone! |
| kamasutra book english translation: The Bedtrick Wendy Doniger, 2022-08-22 Somehow I woke up one day and found myself in bed with a stranger. Meant literally or figuratively, this statement describes one of the best-known plots in world mythology and popular storytelling. In a tour that runs from Shakespeare to Hollywood and from Abraham Lincoln to Casanova, the erudite and irrepressible Wendy Doniger shows us the variety, danger, and allure of the bedtrick, or what it means to wake up with a stranger. The Bedtrick brings together hundreds of stories from all over the world, from the earliest recorded Hindu and Hebrew texts to the latest item in the Weekly World News, to show the hilariously convoluted sexual scrapes that people manage to get themselves into and out of. Here you will find wives who accidentally commit adultery with their own husbands. You will read Lincoln's truly terrible poem about a bedtrick. You will learn that in Hong Kong the film The Crying Game was retitled Oh No! My Girlfriend Has a Penis. And that President Clinton was not the first man to be identified by an idiosyncratic organ. At the bottom of these wonderful stories, ancient myths, and historical anecdotes lie the dynamics of sex and gender, power and identity. Why can't people tell the difference in the dark? Can love always tell the difference between one lover and another? And what kind of truth does sex tell? Funny, sexy, and engaging, The Bedtrick is a masterful work of energetic storytelling and dazzling scholarship. Give it to your spouse and your lover. |
| kamasutra book english translation: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Bhagavanlal Indrajit, 2021-03-05 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. Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks. First published in English in 1883.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. It is a sutra-genre text with terse aphoristic verses that have survived into the modern era with different bhāṣyas (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. |
| kamasutra book english translation: The Kama Sutra in 200 positions Andy Oliver, |
| kamasutra book english translation: Vatsyanana Kamasutra Brij Raj Kishore, Mallanaga Vatsyayana, 2002-05 |
| kamasutra book english translation: The People and Culture of Bengal, a Study in Origins Annapurna Chattopadhyaya, 2002 |
| kamasutra book english translation: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. Vatsyayana Philosoper, 2020-09-25 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. Kāma means sensual or sexual pleasure, and sūtra are the guidelines 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. |
| kamasutra book english translation: The Modern Kama Sutra Kamini Thomas, Kirk Thomas, 2008-08-20 Transform your lovemaking into erotic ecstasy with the secrets of the Kama Sutra - the most ancient, renowned and explicit guide to sexual pleasure. 'Pleasures are as necessary for the well-being of the body as food.' Kama Sutra The Modern Kama Sutra opens you up to a new and exotic world of sexual pleasure that will change your sex life for ever. Inspired by the ancient text of the Kama Sutra, this fully illustrated pack offers a guide to over 30 easy-to-follow explicit positions with step-by-step instructions, practical tips, and 100 stunning colour photographs that guarantee to enhance your erotic pleasure. The guide encourages you to pick and choose the positions which most suit your lifestyle, and experiment with sex sequences that can be used in all kinds of locations - from the kitchen table and bathroom shower to the living room sofa and even the office floor! It is for those of you wanting to experiment and explore the furthest realms of lovemaking. By harnessing the erotic techniques of the Kama Sutra, modern-day couples can heighten their awareness of their own and each other's bodies, and achieve an emotional intimacy and sexual intensity never before experienced. Learn how massage and intimate touching can enhance your sexual desire. Discover how to indulge the body and the senses with chapters on seduction, foreplay and oral sex. Follow the step-by-step instructions for positions such as 'Splitting the Bamboo' , 'The Congress of the Cow', 'Yab Yum' and the 'Canopy of Stars'. |
| kamasutra book english translation: The Kama Sutra Indian Vatsyayana, 2019-05-07 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. Kāma means sensual or sexual pleasure, and sūtra 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. |
| kamasutra book english translation: Kama Sutra Vātsyāyana, 2004 The Kama Sutra's relevance is perennial, since of all life's expressions, sexual gratification remains fundametal, Illustrated with rare miniatures, gouache and tantric paintings, and sculptures on lvory panels, the book imbibes the magic of the Kama Sutra and examines the life force, of which the physical and the spiritual are equally potent aspects. Available in English and French. |
| kamasutra book english translation: Anne Hooper's Kama Sutra Anne Hooper, 1994 'The Kama Sutra' has long enjoyed a reputation as the finest piece of illustrated erotic literature ever written. In this transformation of the 2,000-year-old masterpiece, Anne Hooper brings the teachings of this ancient book of sexual wisdom to a new generation of lovers. The book brings together the best of The Kama Sutra, The Ananga Ranga, The Perfumed Garden, and The Tao to create a new classic. The authors of these works offered creative solutions to sexual problems, enhancing sensuality through innovative techniques. Their ancient teachings remain as dynamic as ever - as Anne Hooper reveals when she draws aside the curtain of myth and mystery that surrounds these erotic volumes. Illustrated with photographs of contemporary couples, Anne Hooper's Kama Sutra presents all the arts of seduction and will inspire every reader to introduce more variety and excitement into sex. |
| kamasutra book english translation: 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. |
| kamasutra book english translation: KAMASUTRA Pradeep Thakur, 2006 A new translation of the Kama Sutra reveals that it is not only a study of sexual pleasure, but also an inspirational guide that elevates the erotic experience to new heights. |
| kamasutra book english translation: Just Love Margaret Farley, 2008-02-15 Winner of the 2008 Grawemeyer Award in Religion This long-awaited book by one of American Christianity's foremost ethicists proposes a framework for sexual ethics whereby justice is the criterion for all loving, including love that is related to sexual activity and relationships. It begins with historical and cross-cultural explorations, then addresses the large questions of embodiment, gender, and sexuality, and finally delineates the justice framework for sexual ethics. Though Just Love's particular focus is Christian sexual ethics, Farley's framework is broad enough to have relevance for multiple traditions. Also covered are specific issues in sexual ethics, including same-sex relationships, marriage and family, divorce and second marriage. |
| kamasutra book english translation: Foucault and the Kamasutra Sanjay K. Gautam, 2016-06-22 The Kamasutra is best known in the West for its scandalous celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art and aesthetic pleasure. In Foucault and the Kamasutra, Sanjay K. Gautam lays out the nature and origin of this iconic Indian text and engages in the first serious reading of its relationship with Foucault. Gautam shows how closely intertwined the history of erotics in Indian culture is with the history of theater-aesthetics grounded in the discourse of love, and Foucault provides the framework for opening up an intellectual horizon of Indian thought. To do this, Gautam looks to the history of three inglorious characters in classical India: the courtesan and her two closest male companions—her patron, the dandy consort; and her teacher and advisor, the dandy guru. Foucault’s distinction between erotic arts and the science of sexuality drives Gautam’s exploration of the courtesan as a symbol of both sexual-erotic and aesthetic pleasure. In the end, by entwining together Foucault’s works on the history of sexuality in the West and the classical Indian texts on eros, Gautam transforms our understanding of both, even as he opens up new ways of investigating erotics, aesthetics, gender relations, and subjectivity. |
| kamasutra book english translation: Principles & Practice of Panchakarma (A Comprehensive Book For U.G., P.G., Researchers & Practitioners) Vaidya Vasant Patil, 2016-01-14 Principles & Practice of Pañcakarma is an essential text on the Pañcakarma, a branch of Medicine. The need for such a book results from scarcity of well written, critically reviewed and the less number of books on Pañcakarma in English language. In 4th edition of Principles & Practice of Pañcakarma, important topics have been added wherever necessary in order make the book complete. Current Practice of Pañcakarma in different diseases is updated. We are very much thankful to all those readers especially students for their overwhelming response & feedbacks. This incredible response increased the responsibility of Atreya Ayurveda Publications to come out with quality Ayurvedic Books. We hope the readers will continue to support in the same manner for this edition & other publications. Intended Audience A Comprehensive Book for BAMS students, M.D. scholars, Academicians, Practitioners and Researchers. This book will helps in precise & deeper understanding of the principles, concepts & practices of Pañcakarma therapy. Outstanding Features Description of fundamentals of Pañcakarma and fundamentals of Shodhana in separate chapters, which is the unique feature of book. All the Keraliya Pañcakarma therapies are covered in Snehana & Svedana chapters, in detail critically with current practices. In the chapter entitled “Fundamental principles of Shodhana”, the author has tried to explain the need, importance, utility, fundamentals, Basic considerations before bio-purification and practical considerations in vivid manner. Basic considerations before Pañcakarma and before Vamana etc. karma are the unique feature of this book. In the chapter therapeutic Pañcakarma the indications of Pañcakarma in different diseases with references has been described in tabular form. The research chapter deals with the problems of research, research methodology, researches done on Pañcakarma, standardization of Pañcakarma, area of research, Pañcakarma Record form, which is unique and first work. Experiences of the eminent physicians, research findings & my past 8 years experiences also included in order to make the book more practical & authentic. The heading ‘Critical notes’ in each Karma refers to the description of essential notes, which needs to be separated from the procedure to make the book reader friendly. The classifications, dose, indications, contraindications etc. subjects are presented in tabular form for easier and better understanding. The mode of action has been described both by Ayurvedic and Modern views in order to highlight the scientific substantiation of action of therapies. |
| kamasutra book english translation: 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 book english translation: Redeeming the Kamasutra Wendy Doniger, 2016 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-- |
| kamasutra book english translation: Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile Ruth Vanita, 2005 Gandhi's Tiger and Sita's Smile presents a collection of compelling essays which interrogate a variety of Indian texts and contexts along intersecting axes of gender, nation, and desire. The primary theme that weaves these varied essays together, written at different points of time with varying focal points of interest, is intertextuality. Vanita examines the way in which medieval texts speak to each other and draw on earlier canonical works, rewriting and transforming narrative in a spirit of respectful conversation. She also looks at modern texts, such as nineteenth-century poetry and twentieth-century fiction and cinema, as they converse with each other and with older texts. In doing so, she tries to explore how such pre-modern and modern texts are received in later periods or by other cultures in the same period. These captivating and intensely thought-provoking writings demonstrate the author's superb ability to turn the norm, whether Right-wing or Left-Wing, on its head, and find a fresh way to appreciate diversity and change, and the valuable dialogue they give rise to. |
| kamasutra book english translation: 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. |
| kamasutra book english translation: The Book Review Digest , 2003 |
| kamasutra book english translation: The Kama Sutra by Vatsyayana Vatsyayana Indian Philosopher, 2019-01-09 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. Kāma means sensual or sexual pleasure, and sūtra are the guidelines 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. |
| kamasutra book english translation: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Mallanaga Vatsyayana, 2021-06-12 Sir Richard F. Burton's translation of The Kama Sutra remains one of the best English interpretations of this early Indian treatise on politics, social customs, love, and intimacy. Its crisp style set a new standard for Sanskrit translation. The Kama Sutra stands uniquely as a work of psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, and sexology. It has been a celebrated classic of Indian literature for 1,700 years and a window for the West into the culture and mysticism of the East. The oldest known book to focus on erotic love, Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra is more than a book about sex; it is about living, morals, and guiding principles. A great read, it is no surprise that it has survived the test of time. First published in 1883, this book contains Richard Francis Burton's English translation of the Kama Sutra. Believed to have been written between 400 BCE and 300 BCE, the Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian text originally written in Sanskrit that deals with eroticism, sexuality, and emotional fulfillment. The first English translation of the ancient book, Burton's volume led to it becoming one of the most pirated books in the English language. Contents include: The Vatsyayana Sutra, Of Sexual Union, About the Acquisition of a Wife, About a Wife, About the Wives of Other Men, About Courtesans, and About the Means of Attracting Others to Yourself. Sir Richard Francis Burton KCMG FRGS (1821-1890) was a British writer, poet, linguist, explorer, translator, geographer, ethnologist, orientalist, Freemason, diplomat, and cartographer best remembered for extensively travelling in and exploring Africa, Asia, and the Americas. An extraordinary polyglot, he spoke 29 languages and gained extensive knowledge about many different cultures and their practices. His most famous works include English translations of One Thousand and One Nights and an incredible account of his incognito trip to Mecca when Europeans were strictly forbidden to do so. |
| kamasutra book english translation: Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions Yudit Kornberg Greenberg, 2007-11-15 This is the first comprehensive resource on the subject of love in the teachings of the world's major religions, cultures, and philosophies. Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions is the first reference work to offer a comprehensive portrait of love in the context of the classic and contemporary literature of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism, as well as other cultures and philosophies. Like no volume published to date, it reveals the full richness of religious teachings on love in all its many forms, exploring an extensive range of topics that offer philosophical, psychological, and religious perspectives to guide the quest for the meaning of love. Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions features approximately 300 subject entries, as well as insightful biographic sketches of preeminent thinkers, all written by a multidisciplinary team of some of the foremost scholars on the subject. Entries examine both general and culture-specific interpretations of love: not just the dichotomy of spiritual and physical love, but the full emotional spectrum of love in relationships and practices. Collectively, they encompass love's integral—and sometimes conflicting—role in shaping beliefs and behavior in a vastly diverse world. |
Kama Sutra Archives - Best Sex Positions
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 …
Kama Sutra - Wikipedia
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.
Kama Sutra Archives - Best Sex Positions
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 …
Kama Sutra - Wikipedia
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.
