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Kamasutra 1.2.1, Translator: Ludo Rocher The Kamasutra is a "sutra"-genre text consisting of intensely condensed, aphoristic verses. Doniger describes them as a "kind of atomic string (thread) of meanings", which are so cryptic that any translation is more like deciphering and filling in the text. Condensing a text into a sutra-genre religious text form makes it easier to remember and transmit ...
Perhaps Burton's best-known book is his translation of The Kama Sutra. It is untrue that he was the translator since the original manuscript was in ancient Sanskrit, which he could not read. However, he collaborated with Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot on the work and provided translations from other manuscripts of later translations. The Kama ...
Box office. $8.6 million[ 2] Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love is a 1996 Indian historical erotic romance film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Mira Nair. The first portion of the film is based on "Utran" ("Hand Me Downs"), a short story in Urdu by the Indian writer Wajida Tabassum. [ 3] The film takes its title from the ancient Indian text ...
Indian. Subject. Aspects of Hindu philosophy pertaining to pleasure-oriented faculties of human life. Notable works. Kama Sutra. Vātsyāyana was an ancient Indian philosopher, known for authoring the Kama Sutra. [ 1] He lived in India during the second or third century CE, probably in Pataliputra (modern day Patna in Bihar ). [ 2]
Terminology. Apadravya ( Sanskrit: अपद्रव्य) is the generic name used in Kama Sutra for prostheses to increase the size of penis during intercourse, primarily to satisfy a woman classified as hastini (हस्तिनी, 'she-elephant'). Fixing an apadravya by perforating the lingam is mentioned as a peculiarity of the ...
Summary. English: The Kama Sutra is a Hindu text, whose title literally means "a treatise on desire / emotional pleasure / love / sex". It is likely a 3rd- or 4th-century CE text according to scholars, but some estimates place it centuries before or after that range. It is a Sanskrit text by Vatsyayana Mallanaga.
Vatsyayana's book the Kama Sutra, in parts of the world, is presumed or depicted as a synonym for creative sexual positions; in reality, only 20% of Kama Sutra is about sexual positions. The majority of the book, notes Jacob Levy, [26] is about the philosophy and theory of love, what triggers desire, what sustains it, how and when it is good or ...
The seeming contradictions of Indian attitudes towards sex (more broadly – sexuality) can be best explained through the context of history. India played a role in shaping understandings of sexuality, and it could be argued that one of the first pieces of literature that treated "Kama" as science came from the Indian subcontinent. [2]