Kamasutra (Oxford World's Classics)
Contributors: Wendy Doniger (Translator); Sudhir Kakar (Translator)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 7, 2003
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780192839824
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: xi; label: I
title: The Text
pagenum: xi; title: The Text and Its Author(s)
pagenum: xi; title: The Genre of the Kamasutra
pagenum: xiv; title: The Science and Magic of Numbers
pagenum: xxi; title: The Kamasutra as a Play in Seven Acts
pagenum: xxv; title: The Genders of the Kamasutra
pagenum: xxviii; title: Psychology and Culture in the Kamasutra
pagenum: xxxix; label: II
title: The Commentaries
pagenum: xlv; title: Yashodhara's Jayamangala
pagenum: xlvi; title: Devadatta Shastri's Jaya
pagenum: xlix; label: III
title: Translations into European Languages
pagenum: 1; title: Burton et al.
pagenum: 1; title: Other Translations
pagenum: lix; title: The Present Translation
pagenum: ix; title: Sexually Explicit Vocabulary
pagenum: xiii; title: Contemporary Pleasures of the Text
pagenum: lxiv; title: A Note on Presentation
pagenum: lxix; title: Kamasutra
description: with excerpts from Yashodhara's commentary, the Jayamangala; label: BOOK ONE
title: General Observations; label: ONE
title: Summary of the Text
pagenum: 3; label: TWO
title: The Means of Achieving the Three Aims of Human Life
pagenum: 7; label: THREE
title: Exposition of the Arts
pagenum: 13; label: FOUR
title: The Lifestyle of the Man-about-town
pagenum: 17; label: FIVE
title: Reasons for Taking Another Man's Wife
pagenum: 22; title: The Work of the Man's Male Helpers and Messengers
pagenum: 27; label: BOOK TWO
title: Sex; label: ONE
title: Sexual Typology According to Size, Endurance, and Temperament
pagenum: 28; title: Types of Love
pagenum: 37; label: TWO
title: Ways of Embracing
pagenum: 39; label: THREE
title: Procedures of Kissing
pagenum: 42; label: FOUR
title: Types of Scratching with the Nails
pagenum: 45; label: FIVE
title: Ways of Biting
pagenum: 48; title: Customs from Different Regions
pagenum: 49; label: SIX
title: Varieties of Sexual Positions
pagenum: 51; title: Unusual Sexual Acts
pagenum: 55; label: SEVEN
title: Modes of Slapping
pagenum: 56; title: The Accompanying Moaning
pagenum: 56; label: EIGHT
title: The Woman Playing the Man's Part
pagenum: 60; title: A Man's Sexual Strokes
pagenum: 61; label: NINE
title: Oral Sex
pagenum: 65; label: TEN
title: The Start and Finish of Sex
pagenum: 70; title: Different Kinds of Sex
pagenum: 71; title: Lovers' Quarrels
pagenum: 73; label: BOOK THREE
title: Virgins; label: ONE
title: Courting the Girl
pagenum: 75; title: Making Alliances
pagenum: 77; label: TWO
title: Winning a Virgin's Trust
pagenum: 78; label: THREE
title: Making Advances to a Young Girl
pagenum: 82; title: Interpreting Her Gestures and Signals
pagenum: 85; label: FOUR
title: The Advances that a Man Makes on His Own
pagenum: 86; title: The Advances that a Virgin Makes to the Man She Wants
pagenum: 88; title: The Advances that Win a Virgin
pagenum: 89; label: FIVE
title: Devious Devices for Weddings
pagenum: 90; label: BOOK FOUR
title: Wives; label: ONE
title: The Life of an Only Wife
pagenum: 94; title: Her Behaviour During His Absence
pagenum: 97; label: TWO
title: The Senior Wife
pagenum: 98; title: The Junior Wife
pagenum: 99; title: The Second-hand Woman
pagenum: 100; title: The Wife Unlucky in Love
pagenum: 101; title: Women of the Harem
pagenum: 102; title: A Man's Management of Many Women
pagenum: 103; label: BOOK FIVE
title: Other Men's Wives; label: ONE
title: On the Characteristic Natures of Women and Men
pagenum: 104; title: Causes of Resistance
pagenum: 105; title: Men who are Successful with Women
pagenum: 107; title: Women who can be Won without Effort
pagenum: 108; label: TWO
title: Ways of Becoming Intimate
pagenum: 110; title: Making Advances
pagenum: 111; label: THREE
title: Testing Her Feelings
pagenum: 113; label: FOUR
title: The Duties of a Female Messenger
pagenum: 115; label: FIVE
title: The Sex Life of a Man in Power
pagenum: 122; label: SIX
title: The Life of the Women of the Harem
pagenum: 125; title: The Guarding of Wives
pagenum: 129; label: BOOK SIX
title: Courtesans; label: ONE
title: Deciding on a Friend, an Eligible Lover, and an Ineligible Lover
pagenum: 131; title: Getting a Lover
pagenum: 135; label: TWO
title: Giving the Beloved What He Wants
pagenum: 137; label: THREE
title: Ways to Get Money from Him
pagenum: 142; title: Signs that His Passion is Cooling
pagenum: 145; title: Ways to Get Rid of Him
pagenum: 145; label: FOUR
title: Getting Back Together with an Ex-lover
pagenum: 147; label: FIVE
title: Weighing Different Kinds of Profits
pagenum: 151; label: SIX
title: Calculating Gains and Losses, Consequences, and Doubts
pagenum: 155; title: Types of Courtesans
pagenum: 159; label: BOOK SEVEN
title: Erotic Esoterica; label: ONE
title: Making Luck in Love
pagenum: 161; title: Putting Someone in Your Power
pagenum: 163; title: Stimulants for Virility
pagenum: 164; label: TWO
title: Rekindling Exhausted Passion
pagenum: 166; title: Methods of Increasing the Size of the Male Organ
pagenum: 169; title: Unusual Techniques
pagenum: 169; title: Appendix: Excerpts from Devadatta Shastri's Commentary
pagenum: 173; title: Explanatory Notes
pagenum: 181; title: Bibliography
pagenum: 212; title: Glossary and Index
pagenum: 219