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Kamasutra
Mallanaga Vatsyayana
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Description for Kamasutra
Paperback. Translator(s): Doniger, Wendy; Kakar, Sudhir. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages, col. Illustrations. BIC Classification: VFVC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 212.
'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 ... Read more
'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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Series
Oxford World's Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199539161
SKU
V9780199539161
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About Mallanaga Vatsyayana
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).
Reviews for Kamasutra
'This translation will change peoples' understanding of this book and of ancient India. Previous translations are hopelessly outdated, inadequate and misguided.'
David Shulman, Prof. of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, quoted in NY Times 4 May 2002
David Shulman, Prof. of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, quoted in NY Times 4 May 2002