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    This document provides an overview of the Kama Sutra, an ancient Indian text written by Vatsyayana that covers sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment. It was written as a guide to living well and discusses topics like courtship, finding a partner, maintaining a relationship, and sexual positions. While it includes topics related to sex, the majority of the text is actually about the philosophy and theory of love, what triggers desire, and how to have fulfilling relationships. The Kama Sutra has influenced many later Indian texts and arts, and temples often include sculptures related to topics from the Kama Sutra.

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    This document provides an overview of the Kama Sutra, an ancient Indian text written by Vatsyayana that covers sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment. It was written as a guide to living well and discusses topics like courtship, finding a partner, maintaining a relationship, and sexual positions. While it includes topics related to sex, the majority of the text is actually about the philosophy and theory of love, what triggers desire, and how to have fulfilling relationships. The Kama Sutra has influenced many later Indian texts and arts, and temples often include sculptures related to topics from the Kama Sutra.

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    This document provides an overview of the Kama Sutra, an ancient Indian text written by Vatsyayana that covers sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment. It was written as a guide to living well and discusses topics like courtship, finding a partner, maintaining a relationship, and sexual positions. While it includes topics related to sex, the majority of the text is actually about the philosophy and theory of love, what triggers desire, and how to have fulfilling relationships. The Kama Sutra has influenced many later Indian texts and arts, and temples often include sculptures related to topics from the Kama Sutra.

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    This article is about the ancient text.

    For the 1996 film, see Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. For other
    uses, see Kama Sutra (disambiguation).

    Kama Sutra

    Two folios from a palm leaf manuscript of the Kamasutra text

    (Sanskrit, Devanagari script).

    Author Vatsyayana Mallanaga

    Original title कामसूत्र

    Translator Many

    Country India

    Language Sanskrit

    Subject The art of living well, the nature of love, finding

    a life partner, maintaining one's love life, and

    other aspects pertaining to pleasure-oriented

    faculties of human life

    Genre Sutra

    Published in 1883
    English

    The Kama Sutra (/ˈkɑːmə ˈsuːtrə/; Sanskrit: कामसूत्र,  pronunciation (help·info), Kāma-


    sūtra; lit. 'Principles of Lust') is an ancient Indian Hindu[1][2] Sanskrit text on sexuality, eroticism and
    emotional fulfillment in life.[3][4][5] Attributed to Vātsyāyana,[6] the Kama Sutra is neither exclusively nor
    predominantly a sex manual on sex positions,[3] but written as a guide to the art of living well, the
    nature of love, finding a life partner, maintaining one's love life, and other aspects pertaining to
    pleasure-oriented faculties of human life. [3][7][8] It is a sutra-genre text with terse aphoristic verses that
    have survived into the modern era with different bhāṣyas (exposition and commentaries). The text is
    a mix of prose and anustubh-meter poetry verses. The text acknowledges the Hindu concept
    of Purusharthas, and lists desire, sexuality, and emotional fulfillment as one of the proper goals of
    life. Its chapters discuss methods for courtship, training in the arts to be socially engaging, finding a
    partner, flirting, maintaining power in a married life, when and how to commit adultery, sexual
    positions, and other topics.[9] The majority of the book is about the philosophy and theory of love,
    what triggers desire, what sustains it, and how and when it is good or bad. [10][11]
    The text is one of many Indian texts on Kama Shastra.[12] It is a much-translated work in Indian and
    non-Indian languages. The Kamasutra has influenced many secondary texts that followed after the
    4th-century CE, as well as the Indian arts as exemplified by the pervasive presence Kama-related
    reliefs and sculpture in old Hindu temples. Of these, the Khajuraho in Madhya Pradesh is a
    UNESCO world heritage site.[13] Among the surviving temples in north India, one in Rajasthan sculpts
    all the major chapters and sexual positions to illustrate the Kamasutra.[14] According to Wendy
    Doniger, the Kamasutra became "one of the most pirated books in English language" soon after it
    was published in 1883 by Richard Burton. This first European edition by Burton does not faithfully
    reflect much in the Kamasutra because he revised the collaborative translation by Bhagavanlal
    Indrajit and Shivaram Parashuram Bhide with Forster Arbuthnot to suit 19th-century Victorian tastes.
    [15]

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