Pururava

Pururava can be seen an early pre-V author on Kama Sastra who authored
Manasija Sutra and Kadambara Sweekarana Sutras. These works have 52 and 33
Sutras respectively. Their small size and the contents of MS depicting the core
subject of sexual union and Kadambara Sweekarana Sutra dealing in initiation of
young girls to drinking wine followed by copulation go in favour of our
conjecture. These do not betray any knowledge of Bahravya or Vatsynyana.
For Pururava it is said that he practiced sexology and its application with Urvashi
for 86000 years. The vedic period reference to their love dalliance has been
mentioned earlier.
The story of Puntrava and Urvashi was very popular from the vedic period and it
was immortalised in Kalidasas Vikramorvashiyam.
This sequence of styles of writing also points to the fact that Punirava's works
were written prior to Babhravya's & Vartyayana's works. There appear quotations
from Varsvayana & Bharata in the commentaries on MS & KSS.
On both these sets of places Pururava lays down his observations and does not
seek support or similarity of news with other authors nor does he betray any
knowledge of older works. It is the commentary writers who quote parallels from
Vatsyayana & Bharata.
The commentary on KSS was written by Rajarshi Bharata who ca not be the
author of Natya Sashtra who is called Barata Muni instead.
Natya Sastra by Bharat Muni
As for Natya Sastra writer Bharata Muni, he seems to follow a different school of
Kama Shashta. The date of NS is somewhere between 2 nd Cen, BC to 2nd Cen. AD.
There are subjects which are common in Kama Sutra & NS viz categorisation of
Nayikas.
Bharata classifies them under Bahya, Abhyantcma &: Bnilyabhycuitara. This
terminology and these concepts do not find place in KS of Vatsyclyana,
Vntsynyana also does not deal with eight types of Vastika mentioned by Bharata.
Bharata's enumeration of types of men under chatura, Uttarma, Madhya, Neech,
and Pravrttakal does not appear in Kama sutra. Vatsyayan instead speaks of

Bhadra, Datta, Krinchirmara & Panchal. Similarly Bharata's classification of

females as Pa mini Chitrini Shakhini & Hastini in Natya Shashtrn (XXII) is ignored
by Vatsyayana although Kokkoka and Kalyanarmalla had taken this into account.
When Bharata is a predecessor and an eminent author on overlapping subjects it
was natural that Vatiorayana should have acknowledged him as he did in case or
the others.
Kama Samuha by Ananta
Ananta was a Nagar brahmin living in Ahmedabad (Ahmedabad as we know was
built by Ahmad Shah the ruler of Gujarat during 1410-1441 A.D. which matches
with the date of Ananta. In writing Kama Samuha, Ananta made extensive use of
verses of others, so much so that half the book is accounted for by borrowing's
from other authors and poets. But for the fact that it was written on subjects
related to Kama it could as well be treated as an anthology.
There are 799 verses. The work starts with description of seasons and covers
many topics of Kama Shastra viz. description of each and every limb of female
body, initiation of of young girl in love, pangs of separation from beloved, lover's
quarrel, erogenous zones of female body, errogeneously relevant dates of the
month, classification of women in love, woman with no such emotion, chaste
women, wanton women et al. before closing the work with 'detachment from
worldly pleasure'.
Many core topics of Kama Sastra have been passed by in Kama Samuha.