description:  The most widely known English translation of the Kama Sutra was made by the soldier, spy, exporer &amp; author Sir Richard Francis Burton &amp; compiled by his colleague Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot in 1883. Historian Burjor Avari has criticized Burton's translation as "inadequate," having had the result that the book gained a reputation in the West of being a pornographic work. A recent translation is that of Indra Sinha, published in 1980. In the early 1990s its chapter on lovemaking positions began circulating on the internet as an independent text &amp; is often assumed to be the whole of the Kama Sutra. Alain Daniélou contributed a translation called The Complete Kama Sutra in 1994. This translation featured the original text attributed to Vatsayana, along with a medieval &amp; modern commentary. Unlike Burton’s version, Alain Danielou’s new translation preserves the numbered verse divisions of the original &amp; includes two essential commentaries: the Jayamangala commentary, written in Sanskrit by Yashodhara during the Middle Ages, &amp; a modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Another noteworthy difference is the preservation of the full explicitness of the original text. All aspects of sexual life have been mentioned--including marriage, adultery, prostitution, group sex, sadomasochism, homosexuality &amp; transvestism. It was translated again in 2002 by Wendy Doniger, professor of the history of religions at the University of Chicago, &amp; Sudhir Kakar, the Indian psychoanalyst &amp; senior fellow at Center for Study of World Religions at Harvard University. Their translation provides a psychoanalytic interpretation.
language: German
title: Das Kamasutra.
titlecomplete: Das Kamasutra.
genres: Religion, Erotica, Reference, Philosophy, Spirituality, Nonfiction, India, Classics, Sexuality, History
ratings_count: 6296
publisher: Reclam, Ditzingen