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 3rd century of the common era, probably in North India. It combines an encyclopaedic coverage of all imaginable aspects of sex with a closely observed sexual pyschology ...
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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 3rd century of the common era, probably in North India. It combines an encyclopaedic coverage of all imaginable aspects of sex with a closely observed sexual pyschology and a dramatic, novelistic narrative of seduction, consummation, and disentanglement. Best known in English through the highly mannered, padded, and inaccurate 19th-century translation of Sir Richard Burton, the text is presented here in an entirely new translation into clear, vivid, sexually frank English, together with three commentaries: translated excerpts from the earliest and most famous Sanskrit commentary (13th century) and from a 20th-century Hindi commentary, and explanatory notes by the two translators.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Hardcover, lxix, 231 pp., color illus., unclipped full-color illustrated jacket. First printing of this edition; complete number line. Mild wear with faint crease on front free endpaper (blank page), no owner names or gift notes, clean text, tight binding, nice jacket with slight wear. This complete translation also includes excerpts from the Sanskrit Jayamangala commentary of Yashodhara Indrapada, the Hiundi Jaya commentary of Devadatta Shastri, and explanatory notes by the translators.
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