Author: Lance Dane
Publisher: Brijbasi
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187902027
Description
This elaborate presentation of the Kama Sutra not only provides the best known visual illustrations related to the world's most famous erotic text, but it also reveals the dramatic beauty of Indian erotic art and the range of artistic response to the Kama Sutra through the centuries.
Kama Sutra, the 4th -5th century Sanskrit compilation by sage Vatsyanana, provides guidance and insight into the art of love. It was transmitted through the centuries by oral tradition and consists of aphoristic sutras, poetic verses which were easily memorized but difficult to understand without the addition of explanations and commentaries. First translated into English at the behest of Sir Richard Burton at the end of the nineteenth century, this text has since been available in many editions. But the Kama Sutra is still the most heard about and the least read book. It has been our sincere effort in this volume to present the ancient masterpiece with a view to make it interesting and readable for the connoisseur and the modern reader alike.
This volume is embellished with a fascinating commentary and expanded captions which evaluate the great works of art that lavishly illustrate the book and provide a rich survey of nearly two thousand years of Indian sensual art.
Contents
Prelude
BOOK I
The Nayaka and the Nahika
BOOK II
The Sexual Encounter
BOOK III
Marriage
BOOK IV
The Wife and other Wives
BOOK V
Seducing the Other Man’s Wife
BOOK VI
Courtesans
BOOK VII
Sexual Aids and Spells