num_pages: 564
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Complete Kāma-Sūtra
titlecomplete: The Complete Kāma-Sūtra
genres: Sexuality, History, Classics, India, Reference, Philosophy, Religion, Erotica, Spirituality, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 6296
publisher: Park Street Press