Kamasutra
Mar 2002 · OUP Oxford
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'When the wheel of sexual ecstasy is in full motion, there is no textbook at all, and no order.' 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 in Sanskrit, the literary language of ancient India, sometime in the third century CE. It combines an encyclopaedic coverage of all imaginable aspects of sex with a closely observed sexual psychology 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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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Henry Gaymon Jr
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October 31, 2024
in my experience understanding after reading this book and studying it's amazing abilities to transform you into a state of enlightenment I'm very grateful that I did not use it for a lustful thing in the beginning after I did not know what it was all about but I am grateful that I can handle the loss and in a very different way because I use it as an exercise now and not as something as a desire for personal pleasure you know so I'm only there to please the person that I'm with or the baby female or male you know I don't believe in the non-binary because I think the future was meant for a man and a woman and that's personally how I describe the understanding of the sexual positions and yoga kind of formation style but it's like a dance and a arch as well
RadhaRaman saini
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December 3, 2022
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February 13, 2018
Nice
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About the author
Wendy Doniger has written a prize-winning on sexual deception, The Bedtrick (2000, Univ. of Chicago Press), and translated the Rig Veda and The Laws of Manu for Penguin. Sudhir Kakar is a psychoanalyst whose most recent books are The Ascetic of Desire (1999), a fictionalized account of the life of Vatsyayana, and the novel Ecstasy (2001).
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