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/ˈkɑːmə ˈsuːtrə/
‘sanskrit’ –> कामसूत्र
kāmasūtra
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*the kama sutra is an ‘ancient indian sanskrit text’ on [‘sexuality’ / ‘eroticism’ / ’emotional’] fulfillment in ‘life’*
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(attributed to ‘vātsyāyana’, the kama sutra is neither ‘exclusively’ nor ‘predominantly’ a ‘sex manual’ on ‘sex positions’, but written as a guide to the…)
“art of living well”, the “nature of love”, “finding a ‘life partner'”, “maintaining one’s love life”, and other aspects pertaining to “pleasure-oriented faculties” of ‘human life’)
(attributed to ‘vātsyāyana’, the kama sutra is neither ‘exclusively’ nor ‘predominantly’ a ‘sex manual’ on ‘sex positions’, but written as a guide to the “art of living well”, the “nature of love”, “finding a ‘life partner'”, “maintaining one’s love life”, and other aspects pertaining to “pleasure-oriented faculties” of ‘human life’)
(‘kamasutra’ is the “oldest surviving hindu text on ‘erotic love'”)
(it is a sutra-genre text with ‘terse aphoristic verses’ that have survived into the ‘modern era’ with different bhasya (‘exposition’ and ‘commentaries’))
(the text is a mix of ‘prose’ and ‘anustubh’-meter poetry verses)
(the text acknowledges the ‘hindu’ concept of ‘purusharthas’, and lists ‘desire’, ‘sexuality’, and ’emotional fulfillment’ as one of the proper goals of life)
(its chapters discuss methods for ‘courtship’, training in ‘the arts’ to be ‘socially engaging’, finding a ‘partner’, ‘flirting’, ‘maintaining power in a married life’, when and how to commit ‘adultery’, ‘sexual positions’, and other ‘topics’)
(the majority of the book is about the ‘philosophy’ and ‘theory’ of ‘love’, what triggers ‘desire’, what sustains it, and ‘how’ and ‘when’ it is ‘good’ or ‘bad’)
(the text is one of many indian texts on kama shastra)
(it is a much-translated work in ‘indian’ and ‘non-indian’ languages)
(the kamasutra has influenced many ‘secondary texts’ that followed after the ‘4th-century CE’, as well as the ‘indian arts’ as exemplified by the pervasive presence ‘kama-related’ reliefs and sculpture in ‘old hindu temples’)
(of these, the ‘khajurahoin madhya pradesh is a ‘UNESCO world heritage site’)
(among the surviving temples in ‘north india’, one in ‘rajasthan’ sculpts all the major ‘chapters’ and ‘sexual positions’ to illustrate the ‘kamasutra’)
(according to ‘wendy doniger’, the kamasutra became “one of the most pirated books in the ‘english language'” soon after it was published in ‘1883’ by ‘richard burton’)
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(this first european edition by ‘burton’ does not faithfully reflect much in the kamasutra because he revised the collaborative translation by ‘bhagavanlal indrajit’ + ‘shivaram parashuram bhide’ with ‘forster arbuthnot’ to suit ’19th-century victorian tastes’)
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👈👈👈☜*“SEXUAL POSITIONS”* ☞ 👉👉👉
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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