The Kamasutra: The Original Sanskrit and An English Translation

The Kamasutra: The Original Sanskrit and An English Translation

The Kamasutra: The Original Sanskrit and An English Translation

The 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
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

Lars Martin Fosse holds a master's and doctorate from the University of Oslo, and also studied at the Universities of Heidelberg, Bonn, and Cologne. He has lectured at Oslo University on Sanskrit, Pali, Hinduism, text analysis, and statistics, and was a visiting fellow at Oxford University. He is one of Europe's most experienced translators.

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

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