Kamasutra
$30.96
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
25 March 2009
Summary
‘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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199539161 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199539162 |
| Author: | Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Wendy Doniger, Sudhir Kakar |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 25 March 2009 |
| Weight: | 213g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 128mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Oxford World's Classics |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
`‘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 Previous translations are hopelessly outdated, inadequate and misguided.“David Shulman, Prof.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
About The Author
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).
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