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The Kama sutra of Vatsyayana

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1963]
Call number: 654811
Creator: Vātsyāyana(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Roger S. Hong, June 2006. From the Hong family library.
Dimensions: 19 cm
Associated people: Burton, Richard Francis, (1821-1890,); Arbuthnot, F. F., (1907-1979,); Archer, W. G. (1896-1963,); Panikkar, K. M. (1898-1977,); Hong, You Chung, (1907-1998,); Hong, Mabel, (1941-2006,)

The Kama sutra of Vatsyayana

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"The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, a Sanskrit book of about the third century A.D., has for long been honoured in India as the earliest Indian treatise on the science and art of sex and love. It describes social customs in early India, analyses sexual techniques and comments on the many different situations in which men and women of the day might find themselves involved and how best these should be dealt with. Its purpose is to discover in what ways happiness and enjoyment can be best achieved. While sharing the Indian attitude to love as an ecstatic experience, it assumes that sexual happiness is founded on scientific knowledge and to this end it provides a series of chapters based on the practical experience of sex. In this respect it is a forerunner of the marriage guidance books of today. The Kama Sutra underlies all later Indian writings on love including Sanskrit love poetry and is a classic contribution to Indian culture"--dust jacket.

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The Kama sutra of Vatsyayana : translated from the Sanskrit ; in seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks

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The Kama sutra : the classic Hindu treatise on love and social conduct

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The publication of Sir Richard Burton's translation of this celebrated classic of Indian literature is a literary event of the first importance. As important to an understanding of ancient Indian civilization as the works of Plato and Aristotle are to the West, the Kama Sutra has endured for 1700 years and may well be the only indisputable classic of the world's literature not yet to have appeared widely in English. Written with frankness and unassuming candor, the Kama Sutra remains one of the most readable and enjoyable of all the classics of antiquity. The Kama Sutra is a work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry and sexology; its importance is so great that it has at the same time both affected Indian civilization and remained the indispensable key to an understanding of it. Long forbidden in America because of its supposedly erotic contents, the Kama Sutra will prove of great value to the student of the East--and a great delight to the sophisticated general reader.

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