The Kama Sutra - Softcover

Vatsyayana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9357273751 ISBN 13: 9789357273756

Verlag: DOUBLE 9 BOOKSLLP, 2022

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One of the best English translations of this ancient Indian treatise on politics, social mores, love, and intimacy are the Kama Sutra, which Mallanaga Vatsyayana wrote in the second century CE. Its clean presentation raised the bar for Sanskrit translation. The Kama Sutra is a unique combination of sexology, society, psychology. It has been hailed as a great work of Indian literature for more than 1,700 years and has served as a window for the West into the mysticism and culture of the East. The Kama Sutra, a prehistoric Indian literature, is regarded as the most important Sanskrit study of human sexuality. The Kama Sutra remains one of the most accessible and entertaining of all the ancient classics, having been written with frankness and unassuming simplicity. The Kama Sutra is so significant as a work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, theology, science, and sexology that it simultaneously had an impact on Indian civilization and remained a crucial component in understanding it.

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Vatsyayana was an ancient Indian philosopher, scholar, and author best known for writing the Kama Sutra, one of the most influential classical texts on love, relationships, intimacy, and human behavior. Believed to have lived between the 3rd and 5th centuries CE, Vatsyayana compiled and synthesized earlier traditions of Indian philosophy concerning kama (pleasure), social customs, marriage, courtship, and emotional life within the broader framework of Hindu thought. Far more than a manual on sexuality, the Kama Sutra explores ethics, aesthetics, partnership, and social dynamics, securing Vatsyayana's place in Indian literature, classical philosophy, cultural history, relationship studies, and ancient Sanskrit scholarship.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: DOUBLE 9 BOOKSLLP
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 9357273751
• ISBN 13: 9789357273756
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 188
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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