The Kamasutra: The Original Sanskrit and An English Translation
466The Kamasutra: The Original Sanskrit and An English Translation
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Overview
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.
From the Introduction The Kamasutra is the most famous guide to sensual pleasure ever written—indeed, one of the most notorious books in the history of the world. Its acute insights into human nature are still relevant today. While previous publishers typically either stole the word “Kamasutra” and slapped it on a book of modern photographs, or neglected to include the original Sanskrit, or reprinted an old, faulty translation (or introduced a new, faulty translation), or included reproductions of miniatures made more than a millennium after the text was composed, YogaVidya.com and I have labored mightily to create a proper edition. It includes the original Sanskrit typeset in Devanagari, a new, accurate and readable English translation, and illustrations using period clothing, jewelry, and settings that actually correspond to what is described in the text.
Excerpt In his love chamber, his decorated bedroom replete with flowers and filled with the fragrance of perfume and incense, the elegant man, together with his friends and servants, with soothing words should offer the woman—already slightly drunk, bathed, and adorned—another drink.
He sits down on her right side, touching her coiffure, the hem of her garment, or her waistband. He gently embraces her with his left arm to arouse her.
There follows jocular and affectionate conversation about past matters, mentioning briefly things secret and obscene.
There is music, with dance or without dance, and discussions about the arts. Then she is enticed with another drink.
When she starts to feel passionate, the rest of the people are sent away with a gift of flowers, oils, and betel. When they are alone, he should arouse her with the embraces and so forth that have been described. Then he should proceed to loosen her waistband, etc., as described.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780971646681 |
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Publisher: | Yogavidya.com |
Publication date: | 09/01/2012 |
Pages: | 466 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.19(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: General Matters
One: Summary of the Guide
Two: The Three Aims of Life
Three: Exposition of the Skills
Four: Lifestyle of the Elegant Man
Five: The Lover and His Companions
Part Two: Sexual Intercourse
One: Sexual Unions
Sexual Intercourse with Regard to Size, Endurance and Temperament
The Variations of Love
Two: Embraces
Three: Ways of Kissing
Four: Forms of Scratching
Five: Biting and Behaviors
Ways of Biting
Behavior Typical of Women from Different Provinces
Six: Positions and Unusual Acts
Different Sexual Positions
Unusual Sexual Acts
Seven: Slapping and Moaning
Eight: Imitation and Techniques
Imitating the Sexual Role of a Man
Sexual Techniques of a Man
Nine: Oral Sex
Ten: Sex: Beginning, Ending, Types, Quarrels
The Beginning and Conclusion of Sexual Intercourse
Different Kinds of Sex
The Lovers’ Quarrel
Part Three: Young Women
One: Choosing a Bride
Rules of Courtship
Deciding a Match
Two: Winning Her Confidence
Three: Approaches and Gestures
Approaching a Young Woman
Indications through Gestures and Facial Expressions
Four: Advances
Advances a Man Can Make on His Own
Approaching a Man One Desires
Winning a Young Woman by Advances
Five: Stratagems for Weddings
Part Four: The Wife
One: The Only Wife
Conduct of an Only Wife
Conduct of a Wife Whose Husband is Abroad
Two: The Other Wives
Conduct of the Senior Wife to the Co-Wives
Conduct of the Junior Wife
Conduct of the Remarried Woman
Conduct of an Unloved Wife
Matters Pertaining to the Harem
Conduct of a Man with Several Wives
Part Five: Other Men’s Wives
One: Seducing Successfully
Exposing the Nature of Men and Women
Causes of Resistance
Men Who Have Success with Women
Women Who are Easily Won
Two: Intimacy and Advances
Ways to Intimacy
Making Advances
Three: Examination of Inclinations
Four: Tasks of the Female Messenger
Five: The Erotic Desire of Rulers
Six: Harems and Wives
Life in the Harem
Guarding One’s Wives
Part Six: Courtesans
One: Friends and Lovers
The Appraisal of a Friend, Suitable and Unsuitable Lovers, and Reasons for Approaching a Lover
How to Acquire One
Two: Compliance with the Lover
Three: Money, Indifference and Disposal
Ways to Make Money
Signs and Recognition of Indifference
Methods for Driving the Lover Away
Four: Restoring a Broken Relationship
Five: Types of Profit
Six: Profit, Loss, Risk and Types of Available Women
Considering Profit and Loss, and their Consequences and Risks
Types of Available Women
Part Seven: Advanced Methods
One: Luck, Spellbinding and Aphrodisiacs
Achieving Luck in Love
Spellbinding Someone
Aphrodisiacs
Two: Passion, Enlargement and Techniques
Recovery of Lost Passion
Enlarging the Male Organ
Unusual Techniques
Contributors
Index