Kama Sutra

Kama Sutra
● TRANSLATOR'S
NOTES
- Preface
- Introduction
● PART I:
INTRODUCTORY
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
● PART II: ON SEXUAL
UNION
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
● PART III: ABOUT THE
ACQUISITION OF A
WIFE
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
● PART IV: ABOUT A
WIFE
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
● PART V: ABOUT THE
WIVES OF OTHER
PEOPLE
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
● PART VI: ABOUT
COURTESANS
- Introductory Remarks -
Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
● PART VII: ON THE
MEANS OF ATTRACTING
OTHERS TO ONE'S SELF
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
● CONCLUDING
REMARKS
● MODERN KAMA
SUTRA
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CONCLUDING REMARKS
Thus ends, in seven parts, the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, which might
otherwise be called a treatise on men and women, their mutual relationship,
and connection with each other.
It is a work that should be studied by all, both old and young; the former will
find in it real truths, gathered by experience, and already tested by themselves,
while the latter will derive the great advantage of learning things, which some
perhaps may otherwise never learn at all, or which they may only learn when it
is too late (`too late' those immortal words of Mirabeau) to profit by the
learning.
It can also be fairly commended to the student of social science and of
humanity, and above all to the student of those early ideas, which have
gradually filtered down through the sands of time, and which seem to prove
that the human nature of today is much the same as the human nature of the
long ago.
It has been said of Balzac the great, if not the greatest of French novelists, that
he seemed to have inherited a natural and intuitive perception of the feelings of
men and women, and has described them with an analysis worthy of a man of
science. The author of the present work must also have had a considerable
knowledge of the humanities. Many of his remarks are so full of simplicity and
truth, that they have stood the test of time, and stand out still as clear and true
as when they were first written, some eighteen hundred years ago.
As a collection of facts, told in plain and simple language, it must be
remembered that in those early days there was apparently no idea of
embellishing the work, either with a literary style, a flow of language, or a
quantity of superfluous padding. The author tells the world what he knows in
very concise language, without any attempt to produce an interesting story.
From his facts how many novels could be written! Indeed much of the matter
contained in Parts III, IV, V and VI has formed the basis of many of the stories
and the tales of past centuries.
There will be found in Part VII some curious recipes. Many of them appear to be
as primitive as the book itself, but in later works of the same nature these
recipes and prescriptions appear to have increased, both as regards quality and
quantity. In the Anunga Runga or `The Stage of Love', mentioned at page 85 of
the Preface, there are found no less than thirty-three different subjects for
which one hundred and thirty recipes and prescriptions are given.
As the details may be interesting, these subjects are described as follows:
● For hastening the paroxysm of the woman
● For delaying the orgasm of the man
● Aphrodisiacs
● For thickening and enlarging the lingam, rendering it sound and strong, hard
and lusty
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