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The cultivation of pleasure was brought to its height with the Kamasutra--the Hindu text of erotic love. This sophisticated and provocative teaching from ancient India has continued to intrigue us for generations, offering explicit instructions in the art of living and lovemaking. Now, Wendy Doniger, one of the world's foremost scholars of Sanskrit and Hindu mythology, offers a fresh and insightful new translation of this treasury of sensual secrets with The ...
Scintillating, tantalizing and original, this book brings out the sparkling beauty and in-depth meaning of the sex postures. An absolute must for those who visit Khajuraho and those who wish to add variety and enjoyment to sex. Enchanting pictures of the temple frienzes have been described with equal delicacy for the benefit of the readers. The exquisits love positions raising that act of love and sex to the ethereal and the sublime have the power to awe and ...
Kamasutra of Vatsyayana is the first available work in Indian tradition on sex and love and social issues related to these. It is a scientific work of encyclopedic nature. There is no other work in Sanskrit presenting such comprehensive documentation on sexual behaviour, life-styles, sports an festivals as prevailing in different regions of this vast peninsula in ancient times. An edition of the complete text of Kamasutra with an authentic English translation has ...
Among all the classical works on erotica, Vatsyayana's Kamasutra is easily the most important and the best known. Vatsyayana, an heir to a rich legacy, scientifically and meticulously incorporated the various schools of thought on the subject in this book. The result is a detailed treatise covering the entire spectrum of love-making: the classification of males and females according to their passion and build, the various possibilities in love-play and sexual ...