The Kamasutra
Subtitle: The Original Sanskrit and An English Translation
Series: no
Publisher: YogaVidya.com
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Woodstock NY
Language: san; eng
Translated from: san
Translation of: The Kamasutra
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780971646698
Copyright date: 2012
Other titles: Kama Sutra
Description: The first compete edition of the Kamasutra. It contains a crisp introduction; the original Sanskrit; a new, accurate and readable English translation; fifty full-page illustrations using period clothing, jewelry, and settings; and a thorough index. Composed almost two thousand years ago, it is surprisingly modern in its depiction of human nature and sexual practices.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part One: General Matters; title: One: Summary of the Guide; title: Two: The Three Aims of Life; title: Three: Exposition of the Skills; title: Four: Lifestyle of the Elegant Man; title: Five: The Lover and His Companions; title: Part Two: Sexual Intercourse; title: One: Sexual Unions; title: Sexual Intercourse with Regard to Size, Endurance and Temperament; title: The Variations of Love; title: Two: Embraces; title: Three: Ways of Kissing; title: Four: Forms of Scratching; title: Five: Biting and Behaviors; title: Ways of Biting; title: Behavior Typical of Women from Different Provinces; title: Six: Positions and Unusual Acts; title: Different Sexual Positions; title: Unusual Sexual Acts; title: Seven: Slapping and Moaning; title: Eight: Imitation and Techniques; title: Imitating the Sexual Role of a Man; title: Sexual Techniques of a Man; title: Nine: Oral Sex; title: Ten: Sex: Beginning, Ending, Types, Quarrels; title: The Beginning and Conclusion of Sexual Intercourse; title: Different Kinds of Sex; title: The Lovers’ Quarrel; title: Part Three: Young Women; title: One: Choosing a Bride; title: Rules of Courtship; title: Deciding a Match; title: Two: Winning Her Confidence; title: Three: Approaches and Gestures; title: Approaching a Young Woman; title: Indications through Gestures and Facial Expressions; title: Four: Advances; title: Advances a Man Can Make on His Own; title: Approaching a Man One Desires; title: Winning a Young Woman by Advances; title: Five: Stratagems for Weddings; title: Part Four: The Wife; title: One: The Only Wife; title: Conduct of an Only Wife; title: Conduct of a Wife Whose Husband is Abroad; title: Two: The Other Wives; title: Conduct of the Senior Wife to the Co-Wives; title: Conduct of the Junior Wife; title: Conduct of the Remarried Woman; title: Conduct of an Unloved Wife; title: Matters Pertaining to the Harem; title: Conduct of a Man with Several Wives; title: Part Five: Other Men’s Wives; title: One: Seducing Successfully; title: Exposing the Nature of Men and Women; title: Causes of Resistance; title: Men Who Have Success with Women; title: Women Who are Easily Won; title: Two: Intimacy and Advances; title: Ways to Intimacy; title: Making Advances; title: Three: Examination of Inclinations; title: Four: Tasks of the Female Messenger; title: Five: The Erotic Desire of Rulers; title: Six: Harems and Wives; title: Life in the Harem; title: Guarding One’s Wives; title: Part Six: Courtesans; title: One: Friends and Lovers; title: The Appraisal of a Friend, Suitable and Unsuitable Lovers, and Reasons for Approaching a Lover; title: How to Acquire One; title: Two: Compliance with the Lover; title: Three: Money, Indifference and Disposal; title: Ways to Make Money; title: Signs and Recognition of Indifference; title: Methods for Driving the Lover Away; title: Four: Restoring a Broken Relationship; title: Five: Types of Profit; title: Six: Profit, Loss, Risk and Types of Available Women; title: Considering Profit and Loss, and their Consequences and Risks; title: Types of Available Women; title: Part Seven: Advanced Methods; title: One: Luck, Spellbinding and Aphrodisiacs; title: Achieving Luck in Love; title: Spellbinding Someone; title: Aphrodisiacs; title: Two: Passion, Enlargement and Techniques; title: Recovery of Lost Passion; title: Enlarging the Male Organ; title: Unusual Techniques