The Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana
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PART II: ON SEXUALUNION
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PART IV: ABOUT AWIFE
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MODERN KAMA SUTRA INTERPRETATION
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PART I: INTRODUCTORY
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On the Arrangements of a House, and Household Furniture; and about the Daily Life of a Citizen, his Companions, Amusements, etc.
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Kinds of Union according to Dimensions, Force of Desire, and Time; and on the different kinds of Love
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PART III: ABOUT THE ACQUISITION OF A WIFE
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On things to be done only by the Man, and the acquisition of the Girl thereby. Also what is to be done by a Girl to gain over a Man and subject him to her
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Kama Sutra
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TRANSLATOR' S NOTESPrefaceI
n the literature of all countries there will be found a certain number of workstreating especially of love. Everywhere the subject is dealt with differently, andfrom various points of view. In the present publication it is proposed to give acomplete translation of what is considered the standard work on love in Sanscritliterature, and which is called the `Vatsyayana Kama Sutra', or Aphorisms onLove, by Vatsyayana. While the introduction will deal with the evidenceconcerning the date of the writing, and the commentaries written upon it, thechapters following the introduction will give a translation of the work itself. It is,however, advisable to furnish here a brief analysis of works of the same nature,prepared by authors who lived and wrote years after Vatsyayana had passedaway, but who still considered him as the great authority, and always quotedhim as the chief guide to Hindoo erotic literature.Besides the treatise of Vatsyayana the following works on the same subject areprocurable in India:The Ratirahasya, or secrets of loveThe Panchasakya, or the five arrowsThe Smara Pradipa, or the light of loveThe Ratimanjari, or the garland of loveThe Rasmanjari, or the sprout of loveThe Anunga Runga, or the stage of love; also called Kamaledhiplava, or a boatin the ocean of love.The author of the `Secrets of Love' was a poet named Kukkoka. He composedhis work to please one Venudutta, who was perhaps a king. When writing hisown name at the end of each chapter he calls himself `Siddha patiya pandita',i.e. an ingenious man among learned men. The work was translated into Hindiyears ago, and in this the author's name was written as Koka. And as the samename crept into all the translations into other languages in India, the bookbecame generally known, and the subject was popularly called Koka Shastra, ordoctrines of Koka, which is identical with the Kama Shastra, or doctrines of love, and the words Koka Shastra and Kama Shastra are used indiscriminately.The work contains nearly eight hundred verses, and is divided into tenchapters, which are called Pachivedas. Some of the things treated of in thiswork are not to be found in the Vatsyayana, such as the four classes of women,the Padmini, Chitrini, Shankini and Hastini, as also the enumeration of the daysand hours on which the women of the different classes become subject to love,The author adds that he wrote these things from the opinions of Gonikaputraand Nandikeshwara, both of whom are mentioned by Vatsyayana, but theirworks are not now extant. It is difficult to give any approximate idea as to theyear in which the work was composed. It is only to be presumed that it waswritten after that of Vatsyayana, and previous to the other works on thissubject that are still extant. Vatsyayana gives the names of ten authors on thesubject, all of whose works he had consulted, but none of which are extant, anddoes not mention this one. This would tend to show that Kukkoka wrote afterVatsya, otherwise Vatsya would assuredly have mentioned him as an author inthis branch of literature along with the others.|
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