Kama Sutra, Kama Sutra

For Kama Sutra as the most notable of the kma hstra literature see: Flood (1996), p. 65.

For the Kama Sutra as a compilation, and dating to second century CE, see: Kkgeay, pp. 81, 103.

The Kama Sutra (Burton translation) says: "Dharma is better than Artha, and Artha is better than Kama. But Artha should always be first practised by the king for the livelihood of men is to be obtained from it only. Again, Kama being the occupation of public women, they should prefer it to the other two, and these are exceptions to the general rule." ( Kama Sutra 1.2.14) Quotation from the translation by Richard Burton taken from [1] . Text accessed 3 April 2007.

Book I, Chapter ii, Lines 2-4 Vatsyayana Kamasutram Electronic Sanskrit edition: Titus Texts, University of Frankfurt The Kama Sutra is sometimes wrongly thought of as a manual for tantric sex. While sexual practices do exist within the very wide tradition of Hindu tantra, the Kama Sutra is not a tantric text, and does not touch upon any of the sexual rites associated with some forms of tantric practice.

This Kama Sutra , however, is of a very different nature as it warns against the dangers that come with the search for pleasures of the senses.

In the early 1990s its chapter on sexual positions began circulating on the internet as an independent text and today is often assumed to be the whole of the Kama Sutra . Sinha, p. 33.

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