Author: Vatsyayana Publisher: ISBN: 9781458331090 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Kama Sutra The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Sanskrit text on sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment in 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 Khajuraho in 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 English language" soon after it was published in 1883 by Richard Burton. This first European edition by Burton does not faithfully reflect much in the Kamasutra because he revised the collaborative translation by Bhagavanlal Indrajit and Shivaram Parashuram Bhide with Forster Arbuthnot to suit 19th-century Victorian tastes.
Author: Wendy Doniger Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190499281 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 185
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"In this scholarly and superbly readable book, one of the world's foremost authorities on ancient Indian texts seeks to restore the Kamasutra to its proper place in the Sanskrit canon, as a landmark of India's secular literature. In investigating, and helping us understand, a much celebrated but under-appreciated text, Wendy Doniger has produced a rich and compelling text of her own that will interest, delight, and surprise scholars and lay readers alike"--
Author: M. Paganoni Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137387963 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 175
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This book explores city branding in the public sector as an aspect of e-governance from a privileged linguistic, discursive and semiotic perspective. It analyses how local administrations and public bodies engage their stakeholders by addressing key issues such as active citizenship, social inclusion and promotion of cultural heritage and events.
Author: DK Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0756659612 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 244
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Every Kama Sutra position and how to do it... Re-discover the ultimate handbook of exotic sensuality, the Kama Sutra, with this bold new 'how-to' guide. Over 500 explicit photographs help you and your partner achieve even the most elaborate positions, while revealing advice tells you how to experience every ecstatic moment. Whether you're a Kama Sutra novice or a connoisseur, experience every position from the sweet and sensuous 'Elephant' to the acrobatic 'Suspended Congress', and explore the erotic possibilities of massage, bathing and fantasy. Share the sensational pleasures of the world's most celebrated sex manual, step by sensual step.
Author: Sophie Berrebi Publisher: ISBN: 9783906915111 Category : Cities and towns in art Languages : en Pages : 287
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Dubuffet and the City. People, Place and Urban Space,? written and edited by renowned scholar Dr. Sophie Berrebi (University of Amsterdam), is the first in-depth study to address the work of Jean Dubuffet (1901-1984) in relation to the theme of the city. The book examines how the city plays a role in the formation and unfolding of Dubuffet?s practice and imagination as a material, a source, and a vehicle for ideas. It analyses works in which the artist depicts city dwellers, sites and urban spaces, and discusses his architectural projects from the 1960s and 1970s against the background of heated debates in the field of urbanism. The book accompanies and extends an exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Zurich (June?Sept 2018). Along with full color reproductions of art works the book reproduces little-known archival material from the archives of the Fondation Dubuffet. It also includes several texts by Dubuffet that are translated here in English for the first time.00Exhibition: Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Switzerland (10.06.-01.09.2018).
Author: Vatsyayana Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781512144956 Category : Love Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Kama Sutra The Standard Work on Human Sexual Behavior By Vatsyayana Translated from the Sanscrit In Seven Parts, with Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks. New Edition The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian Hindu text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by Vaatsyayana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse. It is largely in prose, with many inserted anustubh poetry verses. "Kama" which is one of the four goals of Hindu life, means desire including sexual desire the latter being the subject of the textbook, and "sutra" literally means a thread or line that holds things together, and more metaphorically refers to an aphorism (or line, rule, formula), or a collection of such aphorisms in the form of a manual. Contrary to popular perception, especially in the western world, Kama sutra is not exclusively a sex manual; it presents itself as a guide to a virtuous and gracious living that discusses the nature of love, family life and other aspects pertaining to pleasure oriented faculties of human life. The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts known generically as Kama Shastra (Sanskrit: Kama Sastra). Historians attribute Kamasutra to be composed between 400 BCE and 200 CE. John Keay says that the Kama Sutra is a compendium that was collected into its present form in the 2nd century CE.
Author: Vātsyāyana Publisher: ISBN: 9781569241820 Category : Erotic art Languages : en Pages : 79
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The Kama Sutra (Aphorisms on Love) was written in India some time between 1-5 AD. Its author is said to have been Mallanga Vatsyayana, who compiled the Kama Sutra while he was a religious student, studying the sacred books of Hinduism. In his day Kama, which is love and other pleasures of the senses, was considered to have its own share in the divine scheme of things: in sexual union, a man and woman re-enacted the creation of the cosmos. In this volume the extracts from the Kama Sutra give the modern reader an idea of the book's scope, while the beautiful illustrations reflect the ethos of the Kama Sutra, which is of a highly civilized society which took its pleasures very seriously.
Author: Madison Streep Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 272
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If you are looking for the most detailed guide on Kama Sutra, you want to discover the most amazing Kama Sutra Sex Positions, Kama Sutra Secrets, many ways to fulfill your most hidden sex fantasies, make the best out of your sexual experiences... Then this book is for you! This book contains all you need to know about bringing your sex to the next level through the learning of Kama Sutra and its many benefits. By using the knowledge within these pages you will surprise your sexual partner. You will learn things you didn't even know you needed to know but that will make you wonder how you ever lived without them! In this book you will discover: - What is Kama Sutra and its benefits - What is love for Kama Sutra - How to succeed in flirting and courtship - How can you become a master in seduction - How to maximize intimacy and foreplay - How enjoy at best the 100+ sex positions of the extended Kama Sutra including, standing, relaxing, woman dominates, man dominates, sitting, acrobatic positions - How to excel at oral sex with several positions - What to do if you want to try anal sex - What masturbation techniques can you use to better discover yourself - What type of orgasm should you aim at and how to get them - How can sex toys spice up your sex life - In which cases you should go for a threesome and how can you enjoy at best this experience And much more! Most books on Kama Sutra focus only on few sex positions and do provide enough illustrations; as well they fail to explain clearly all the aspects of Kama Sutra and do not go deep enough in each area. This is instead a complete 360 degrees book on Kama Sutra! If you are a beginner, you can start your journey towards full sex enjoyment. If you have some experience, get ready to upgrade your level up! Do yourself, your partner and everyone else that you will potentially have sex with a favor, read this book! Give your partner the present of informing yourself about how to bring them enjoyment like never before. All you have to do is to click on the BUY NOW button, and you will be able to start your way to becoming the best sexual partner you can ever be!
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