The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian text widely considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by VÄtsyÄyana. A portion of the work consists of practical advice on sexual intercourse.
VÄtsyÄyana is the name of a Hindu philosopher in the Vedic tradition who is believed to have lived during time of the Gupta Empire (4th to 6th centuries CE) in India. His name appears as the author of the Kama Sutra and of NyÄya Sutra BhÄshya, the first commentary on Gotama's NyÄya Sutras.
The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts known generically as Kama Shastra.
In Indian literature, KÄmashastra refers to the tradition of works on KÄma: love, erotics, or sensual pleasures. It therefore has a practical orientation, similar to that of Arthashastra, the tradition of texts on politics and government. Just as the former instructs kings and ministers about government, KÄmashastra aims to instruct the townsman (nÄgarika) in the way to attain enjoyment and fulfillment.
The most widely known English translation of the Kama Sutra was privately printed in 1883. It is usually attributed to renowned orientalist and author Sir Richard Francis Burton, but the chief work was done by the pioneering Indian archaeologist, Bhagvanlal Indraji, under the guidance of Burton's friend, the Indian civil servant Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, and with the assistance of a student, Shivaram Parshuram Bhide. Burton acted as publisher, while also furnishing the edition with footnotes whose tone ranges from the jocular to the scholarly.
According to Kamasutra Man is divided into three classes, viz. the hare man, the bull man, and the horse man, according to the size of his lingam (Penis).
Woman also, according to the depth of her yoni (Vagina), is either a female deer, a mare, or a female elephant.
There are thus three equal unions between persons of corresponding dimensions, and there are six unequal unions, when the dimensions do not correspond, or nine in all.
Females do not emit as males do. The males simply remove their desire, while the females, from their consciousness of desire, feel a certain kind of pleasure, which gives them satisfaction, but it is impossible for them to tell you what kind of pleasure they feel. The fact from which this becomes evident is, that males, when engaged in coition, cease of themselves after emission, and are satisfied, but it is not so with females.
The Book KAMASUTRA “An Ancient Encyclopedia of Love, Romance & Sex” deals with the fallowing Topics.
1. Vatsayana Kama Sutra
2. History of Human Sexuality
3. Neotantra
4. Sex in Various Cultures
5. Religion and Sex
6. Cultural Approaches to Sexuality
7. Anatomy of Human Sexual Organs
8. Human Reproductory System
9. Sexual Intercourse
10. Human Sexual Activity
11. Aspects of Human Sexual Behavior
12. Sexual Activity and Orientations
13. Mechanics of Human Sexuality
14. Human Female Sexuality
15. Heterosexuality
16. Homosexuality
17. Lesbian Sexual Practices
18. Twentieth Century Sexual Revolution
19. Technology and Sex
20. Anal–Oral Sex
21. Oral sex
22. Oral stimulation of nipples
23. Anal Sex
24. Ass to Mouth
25. Bareback Sex
26. Sodomy
27. BDSM
28. Sexual Acts
29. Sex Toys
30. Cybersex
31. Gang bang & Group Sex
32. Masturbation
33. Mutual masturbation
34. Non-penetrative sex
35. Sex positions
36. Non-exclusive
37. Quickie (sex)
38. Sex Magic
Kamasutra also describes:
1. Various Kinds of Kisses
2. Kinds of Pressing, Marking & Scratching with Nails.
3. Types of Biting
4. 64 ways of Laying down and Types of congress
5. Types of Striking women and Sounds Appropriate to them
6. Woman Acting part of Man when he feels Fatigued and Vice Versa
7. Mouth Congress (Oral Sex)
8. Qualities of Woman whom he has to marry and whom he has to avoid
9. Things to be done in Gaining the heart of the girl whom he loves or Vice Versa
10. Acts to be done to by man towards Woman whom he marries prior to Sex
11. Understanding the signs of Love expressed by a girl. (there is a saying that “It is hard to understand a woman’s heart”)
12. Forms of Marriage
13. Role to be played by Woman in her marital life
14. Reasons for Woman rejecting a man
15. Qualities of Man who can easily attract Women
16. Qualities of Woman easily attained by a Man
17. Employing a person as a “Go – Between” to acquire a girl or to solve Love Quarrels between a Man and Woman
18. Signs of Change in Lover’s Feeling towards the other (signs of Loosing Interest in other person)
19. Techniques to get rid of the present Lover or re-union with Former Lover.
20. Means of increasing the loveliness of a person in the eyes of others
21. Making oneself lovely in the eyes of others
22. Subjugating others to one's own will
23. Increasing sexual vigor
24. Techniques to Enlarge the size of the Penis and Tightening the Vagina
25. Changing the color of hair by natural means and making the hair grow
26. Delaying the Orgasms in Man & Hastening orgasms in Woman
27. Perfuming of Vagina
28. Removing or destroying the Hair of the body
29. Purifying the Womb for Pregnancy
30. Preventing Miscarriage and other accidents & Ensuring easy labor and ready deliverance
31. Enlarging & Raisining the breasts of the women
32. Conceiving and non-conceiving Sex Positions
33. Deals with achieving WHOLE BODY ORGASMS rather than orgasms localized to the sexual organs.
Kamasutra
Love Postures
There are originally just eight positions detailed on the book, and eight variations per position, making a total of sixty four positions in all. There are several categories on the art of love making as detailed in the Indian Kama Sutra written by Vatsyayana.
These categories are:
1. Sitting Positions.
2. Standing Positions.
3. Rear-entry Positions.
4. Woman on Top Positions.
5. Man on Top Positions.
6. Woman and Man on their sides facing each other.
7. Woman with her back to the man.
8. Seated Positions normally Face to Face.
It should also be kept in mind that the book is not merely a guide on how to perform sex, but as a guide on how to live one’s life better and to establish better relationships with the people around him.
All the 64 variants of Sex Positions are described in the book with much emphasis giving to describe the positions using Sculptures available on Khajuraho Temples and other famous Temple in India.
Conceiving and non-conceiving Sex Positions are also discussed in this book.
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Ravi Prakash
