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The Complete Kama Sutra

The Complete Kama Sutra: The First Unabridged Modern Translation Of The Classic Indian Text

by Mallanaga Vatsyayana

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Format:
Paperback 
Pages:
576 
Publisher:
Inner Traditions Bear and Company 
Publication Date:
01 September 1993 
Category:
Non-Western Philosophy 
ISBN:
9780892814923 

Description

This definitive volume is the first modern translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra to include two essential commentaries: the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and the modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Alain Danilou spent four years comparing versions of the Kama Sutra in Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, and English, drawing on his intimate experience of India, to preserve the full explicitness of the original. I wanted to demystify India, he writes, to show that a period of great civilization, of high culture, is forcibly a period of great liberty."

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  • This is a very *interesting* book ;) Aside from the positions which we all know it includes there is a lot of other really outdated stuff. It's hard to believe that people once followed this book as an authority LOL The most hilarious chapters are the ones on superstitious beliefs and the discussions of home cooked remedies, for example:Apply to the lips every day the sweat from the testicles of a white horse mixed with yellow arsenic....I don't think so! LOL This book is great for a laugh. I recommend putting it in the bathroom as it's great reading when you only have time for brief snippets.

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