The Complete Kama Sutra: The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text

by Mallanaga Vātsyāyana, Richard Francis Burton, Richard S. Hartmetz, et al.

Book Overview

This definitive volume is the first modern translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra to include two essential commentaries: the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and the modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Alain Danilou spent four years comparing versions of the Kama Sutra in Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, and English, drawing on his intimate experience of India, to preserve the full explicitness of the original. I wanted to demystify India, he writes, to show that a period of great civilization, of high culture, is forcibly a period of great liberty.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892814926
• ISBN13: 9780892814923
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Park Street Press
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

The pictures are stock photos The book you receive may have a different picture makes you think yo

This is a 500+ pages of Philosophy !! Not interested in easter philosophy… was not what i was wanted.. customer service was great able to refund Be more careful and read carefully what you get

I wouldn't know. I received the wrong book

I'm sure the book I received is full of great information, but I haven't read it yet. I ordered the illustrated guide pictured and received a mass market paperback written entirely in text. I'm not too interested in Eastern philosophy. I have a philosophy, I wanted illustrations to share with my wife.

The Complete Illustrated Kama Sutra

I think the book is awesome and look forward to being able to try some of it out.

Great lille book.......Loaded with useful information.

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