Pramesh Ratnakar Libros

Said to have been written sometime in the 4th century ad the kama sutra of vatsyayana, first translated into english in 1883 is much more than a mere description of exotic sexual practices it attempts to cover the entire gamut of man/woman relationships, from furnishing ones house to seducing other mens wives this selection is from this authoritative translation, vividly interspersed with beautiful photographs from museums and private collections

One of the oldest living cities in the world and the nerve centre of spiritual India, Banaras reveals itself as a fascinating composite of the historical and the mythical, of the ancient and the modern, of the real and the transcendental. To experience it, one needs not just sight but insight.

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.