It is one of the most important texts of Sanskrit poetry.
The kamasutra is the oldest Hindu treatise on love and erotic arts.
Kamasutra, much more than a sexual guide!
Sutra (from Sanskrit सूत्र, sūtra (in pāli sutta), literally means “thread” (from the Indo-European root *syū-, the same as the Latin suere, “to sew”), and in its original sense it indicates a “short phrase”, an “aphorism”. Kama (devanagari कामदेव, IAST Kāma), in the Indian religion is the deva of pleasure, love, desire. Most of the treatise deals with social relations, the relationships between men and women and physical and psychological well-being. This work written in Sanskrit, almost two thousand years ago, by Vhatsyâyna Mallananâga is rather a guide to good behaviour and the arts of love. In the collective imagination the Kamasutra immediately suggests a manual of more or less acrobatic sexual positions, but the treatise includes many other things…
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