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Kama Sutra
AMOROUS MAN & SENSUOUS WOMAN
The Kama Sutra is an ancient classical work on the art of love.
Its uniqueness lies in that it discusses the theme of sexual pleasure without any feeling of shyness or shame. The author, Vatsyayana, talks about 'kama', that is, sexual pleasure, and explains the rules which should govern life according to kama. Through its discussion on, erotic love, the book manages to highlight the social customs and individual habits of ancient India. This tastefully produced and beautifully illustrated gift edition treats the subject of male and female sexuality in two separate volumes, suggestively entitled The Amorous Man and The Sensuous Woman. The male-female union is portrayed in all its splendour through the use of Indian miniatures and Khajuraho sculpture.
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The Sensuous Woman |
The Amorous Man
Introduction
Her face is like the full moon on a dark night. Her eyes are large like frightened doe's. Her breasts firm and high, she walks with the grace of a swan. Her yoni like a fresh lotus-bed... ' who can find fault with this lyrical description of Vatsayayana's Deer woman? You see her splashed across the page of Indian literature in the vivid images of Kalidasa's Shakuntala, in the agony of love and desire; or in the 'leaden-eyed' despair of a lovelorn Radha awaiting her lover at dusk, in the monsoon, with a thousand elephants marching across the sky!
The ancient sage knew, even in those hoary times, that female secuality could not be taken for granted. He enjoined men to 'place your pleasures second to hers' and the chapter on compatibility is the considered wisdom of a learned man who was able to understand human nature and reflect upon the eternal pleasures of lovemaking.
Rati is the embodiment of female sexuality and is meant to initiate women into the art of lovemaking, enhancing both the sensual and sexual aspects to lead them to ascend unknown peaks of desire and fulfillment. Often, the uninhibited author is found admitting; 'Although some learned men object'. yet, he insists that women should read his work! He was, we must remember, writing for lovers, not just married people and is surprisingly open-minded and liberal in his outlook. This is one of the book's undeniable charms and the reason why it appeals so much to the modern sensibility. |
Waters, you are the ones that bring us the left-force. Help us to find nourishment so that we may look upon others with great joy. |
Discard the anklets on your feet, betraying-noisy, timid foes-which dance with clatter in the sports of love. |
When heavy rain-clouds darken the sky and great heavenly birds with wonderful wings stre ak across, the heart yearns for company. |
O make him enjoy me, my friend, me who sweated and moistened all over my body |
In the beginning of coition the passion of the woman is middling and she cannot bear the vigorous thrusts of her lover. |
When a woman, having placed one of her feet on the foot of her lover and the other on his thighs, passes one of her arms round the back and the other on his shoulder. it is called the 'climbing of a tree |
Through a bamboo thicket Krishna gazes as she of the beautiful hips disrobes for a bath. |
Bind my mass of hair with a beautiful garland and place many braclets upon my hands and jewelled anklets upon my feet |
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Lost in contemplation the sages are impervious to the pleadings of the nymphs.
← These are with her the pleasures of being intimate.
The charms vibrant and moist of her eyes and the scent of her lotus mouth
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She despises her unguents of sandal.
She is pale as moonbeans, she discovers sorrow |
Those hips from whence the garment falls, those lions which are a treasure heap, the fountain and the source of all delight. |
In the absence of her lover,the lady spends her time training her parrot and dog. |
The element of risk and the fear of discovery adds to the excitement. |
Fruits of love: a lady, assisted by the midwife and maids, delvers a baby |
When the woman lowers her head and raise her middle parts, it is called the 'widely opened position'.
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The warmth of her body, her gasping breath has fanned into flames
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When the lingam is held in the hand and it is kissed as if the lover lip were being kissed, it is called 'kissing'
Consult your jar-shaped breast on which are spotless streams of necklaces .→ |
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Sexual congress can be compared to a quarrel on account of contrarieties of love and its tendency to dispute. |
Beautiful woman, you dwell in my heart like a girl who's tender and skillful
How wonderful slender one, though on earth, the way you bear in your person the nymphs of heaven
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Her face is like the full moon on a dark night. Her eyes are large like a frightened doe's . Her breasts firm and high, she walks with the grace of a swan |
← How delicious an instrument is woman when artfully played upon; how capable is she of producing the most exquisite harmonies; of executing the most complicated variations of love and of giving the most divine of erotic pleasures. |
She depicts you in secret, with a piece of musk for pencil, you her kama, her love.
As the God of Love-the master beneath, the mango sprout in hand - and worship |
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