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Kamasutra (Oxford World’s Classics)

Kamasutra (Oxford World’s Classics)

Mallanaga Vatsyayana, Wendy Doniger, Sudhir Kakar
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'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
psychology and a dramatic, novelistic narrative of seduction, consummation, and disentanglement. Best known in English through the highly mannered, padded, and inaccurate nineteenth-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 twentieth-century Hindi commentary, and explanatory notes by the two translators.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Year:
2009
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
298
ISBN 10:
0191001848
ISBN 13:
9780191001840
Series:
Oxford World’s Classics , Re-Issue Edition
File:
EPUB, 16.69 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2009
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