Kama Sutra
Tip! Let the woman lie on her side and stretch out her bottom leg. Crouch down between her thighs, lift her top leg and introduce your lingam.
The Kama Sutra is the most famed book on lovemaking ever written. Originally composed by an Indian guru sometime between the fourth century BC and the first century AD, it was not translated into English until the 1880's, and has only been available to the general reader since the 1960's.
Not much is known about the author of the Kama Sutra. He belonged to the Vatsyayana sept, and his own name was Mallanaga. He embarked on the book as he was nearing the end of his life, and saw the writing of it as part of his religious obligations. It is a learned and carefully researched work, objective and semi-scientific, and is itself based on the writings of prior sages.
The Kama Sutra was written in a time when the civilised Hindu was expected to obtain 3 main beliefs. Dharma, or religious merit, Artha, or worldly wealth and Kama, the science of love and pleasure. Vatsyayana highlights that this work isn't to be used just as an tool for fulfilling our desires. However, it became, over the years, an indispensable part of the readings of thousands of Indians, and unlike other writers who wrote solely for men, Vatsyayana's timeless book was used to train young brides before their weddings.
Tip! Lay the woman on her back and raise her thighs, then, getting between her legs, introduce your lingam.
We owe a great deal to the Victorian scholar and explorer Richard Burton and his acquaintance Foster Arbuthnot, who took great pains to interpret the original Sanskrit.
In the face of opposition and risking prosecution, they published the book in 1883 under the fictitious imprint The Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares. It was distributed, with other translations of eastern texts such as the Ananha Ranga, The Perfumed Garden and The Arabian Nights, among an elite group of people who were interested in the behaviour and customs of the orient, although undoubtedly it was also used as a guide for Victorian husbands. Since it was discovered, the Kama Sutra has transformed the western approach to Indian culture, showing as it does how central and natural sex was to Indian thought.
The Sanskrit term Kama meant sensual gratification, pleasure, love, while Sutra meant compressed expressions, aphorisms . But Kama is far more than merely erotic pleasure. It takes in all sensory pleasures. Thus perfumes, good food, silken clothes, music and painting all came within Kama's realm. When Vatsyayana named his treatise Kama Sutra, he intended to lay down standards for the gratification of all these pleasures. So he illustrates how the house of the ideal citizen is to be furnished, built and provisioned. Which sweet smelling plants should be grown in the gardens. With which paintings and sculptures the rooms should be decorated, what incenses should perfume the air and what music should be present at the meetings of lovers.
In a very real sense, sex was thought of by the Hindus not only natural and necessary, but virtually sacramental - the human counterpart of the miracle of creation. Erotic statues and carvings all over India give evidence to the fact that it was a subject to be approached with objectivity and reverence , rather than as something obscene and secret.
The Kama sutra in its entirety is a long work and consists not only of precise advice on the sexual act itself - in the section of the book known as the sixty four - but also lays down instructions on education, marriage, household management, courtship, medicine, and a range of accomplishments cultured men and women needed to acquire in order to catch the attention of the opposite sex.
Article based on text taken from Thorsons First Directions Kama Sutra.
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