The Kamasutra is the oldest extant textbook of erotic love. But it
is more than a book about sex. It is about the art of living--about
finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing
adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs--and also, of
course, about the many and varied positions available to lovers in
sexual intercourse and the pleasures to be derived from each.
The Kamasutra was composed in Sanskrit, the literary language of
ancient India, sometime in the third century, probably in North
India. It combines an encyclopedic coverage of all imaginable
aspects of sex with a closely observed sexual psychology and a
dramatic, novelistic narrative of seduction, consummation, and
disentanglement. Best known in English through the highly mannered,
padded, and inaccurate nineteenth-century translation by Sir
Richard Burton, the text is newly translated here into clear,
vivid, sexually frank English. This edition also includes a section
of vivid Indian color illustrations along with three uniquely
important commentaries: translated excerpts from the earliest and
most famous Sanskrit commentary (thirteenth century) and from a
twentieth-century Hindi commentary, and explanatory notes by the
two translators.
The lively and entertaining introduction by translator Wendy
Doniger, one of the world's foremost Sanskrit scholars, discusses
the history of The Kamasutra and its reception in India and Europe,
analyses its attitudes toward gender and sexual violence, and sets
it in the context of ancient Indian social theory, scientific
method, and sexual ethics.
" This] new translation is fascinating, thought-provoking and
occasionally even amusing."--Salon.com
About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has
made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the
globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to
scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of
other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading
authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date
bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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