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The COMPLETE translation of Mallanga Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra from the Sanskrit, by Sir Richard Burton. With 14 plates of
images. Discover... -7 ways to kiss -8 ways to bite -17 kinds of girls a man should not marry -The right kind of girl to marry -The right conduct of a wife -4 common causes of a marriage breaking -10 circumstances in which it is ok for a man to have an affair with the wife of another man -24 things that make women reject a man's advances -24 things that make women say Yes to a man's advances -41 signs that reveal a woman is easy to get -9 main causes for a wife to be unfaithful -26 ways for a woman to get money out of her lover -8 signs of diminishing love in a man -27 ways for a woman to get rid of a lover she doesn't care about any more -The ways to increase desire and satisfy multiple women, that were used at the time of Vatsyayan... Over 250 pages of a wealth of information and knowledge about the male-female sex dynamic provided in an uncensored, unexpurgated translation of the Kama Sutra by Sir Richard Burton. "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..." -RICHARD BURTON About the Author: Richard Francis Burton was born near Elstree, Hertfordshire, on March 19, 1821. He traveled Europe widely in his youth with his parents. At age ten, Burton stole his father's rifle and shot out stained-glass church windows. This wild behavior was to be the norm for the rest of his life. With his brother, he frequented the taverns, gambling dens, gypsy camps and brothels of France and Italy. Burton attended Oxford University, where he became known as "Ruffian Dick" for his long moustaches and love of challenging other students to duels. He was eventually expelled for attending horse races, and marked the occasion by driving a horse and carriage over the school’s flowerbeds while blowing a trumpet. At 21 Burton joined the army and was posted to the Sindh in India. He lived with the Muslims and learned several Eastern languages, including Iranian, Hindustani, and Arabic. In his travels, he learned 25 languages, with dialects that brought the number to 40. While in the army, Burton used his language skills to work undercover and gain intelligence for his commander, Sir Charles Napier. At age 29, he fell ill with cholera and returned to England. After those seven years in India he wrote four books on the country and planned his next adventure: to enter Mecca disguised as a Muslim. If discovered, he faced execution. Burton wrote about his trip as more than a travel narrative or tale of adventure; his work captured the culture of the Muslim peoples he encountered, a technique that modern anthropologists call "ethnology". Burton also entered the forbidden Muslim city of Harar, also under threat of execution if discovered. He became the first white man to enter and leave alive. Burton also traveled in Africa. He went in search of the source of the Nile with John Speke. Their party was attacked, and Burton was forced to return to England after catching a spear through the jaw. In 1860 Burton went to Utah to visit Brigham Young and the Mormons. He wrote about his findings in The City of the Saints (1861). Shortly after his return from the United States, in January 1861, he secretly married the aristocrat Isabel Arundell. Burton joined the British Foreign Office and traveled more in Africa. He wrote five books on African culture, detailing everything from cannibalism to bizarre sexual customs. This sensational subject matter made him a bit of an outcast back in Victorian England. Before his death in 1890, he wrote more books about different parts of the world, and brought various sexual texts from the East, including the Kama Sutra. This shocked and outraged many Victorians. After his death, his wife burned all his papers and diaries, and tried to depict him as a good Catholic and loyal husband. Introduction by Richard Burton, Translator: IT may be interesting to some persons to learn how it came about that Vatsyayana was first brought to light and translated into the English language. It happened thus. While translating with the pundits the `Anunga Runga, or the stage of love', reference was frequently found to be made to one Vatsya. The sage Vatsya was of this opinion, or of that opinion. The sage Vatsya said this, and so on. Naturally questions were asked who the sage was, and the pundits replied that Vatsya was the author of the standard work on love in Sanscrit literature, that no Sanscrit library was complete without his work, and that it was most difficult now to obtain in its entire state. The copy of the manuscript obtained in Bombay was defective, and so the pundits wrote to Benares, Calcutta and Jeypoor for copies of the manuscript from Sanscrit libraries in those places. Copies having been obtained, they were then compared with each other, and with the aid of a Commentary called `Jayamangla' a revised copy of the entire manuscript was prepared, and from this copy the English translation was made. The following is the certificate of the chief pundit: `The accompanying manuscript is corrected by me after comparing four different copies of the work. I had the assistance of a Commentary called "Jayamangla" for correcting the portion in the first five parts, but found great difficulty in correcting the remaining portion, because, with the exception of one copy thereof which was tolerably correct, all the other copies I had were far too incorrect. However, I took that portion as correct in which the majority of the copies agreed with each other.' The `Aphorisms on Love' by Vatsyayana contain about one thousand two hundred and fifty slokas or verses, and are divided into parts, parts into chapters, and chapters into paragraphs. The whole consists of seven parts, thirty-six chapters, and sixty-four paragraphs. Hardly anything is known about the author. His real name is supposed to be Mallinaga or Mrillana, Vatsyayana being his family name. At the close of the work this is what he writes about himself: `After reading and considering the works of Babhravya and other ancient authors, and thinking over the meaning of the rules given by them, this treatise was composed, according to the precepts of the Holy Writ, for the benefit of the world, by Vatsyayana, while leading the life of a religious student at Benares, and wholly engaged in the contemplation of the Deity. This work is not to be used merely as an instrument for satisfying our desires. A person acquainted with the true principles of this science, who preserves his Dharma (virtue or religious merit), his Artha (worldly wealth) and his Kama (pleasure or sensual gratification), and who has regard to the customs of the people, is sure to obtain the mastery over his senses. In short, an intelligent and knowing person attending to Dharma and Artha and also to Kama, without becoming the slave of his passions, will obtain success in everything that he may do.' It is impossible to fix the exact date either of the life of Vatsyayana or of his work. It is supposed that he must have lived between the first and sixth century of the Christian era, on the following grounds. He mentions that Satakarni Satavahana, a king of Kuntal, killed Malayevati his wife with an instrument called kartari by striking her in the passion of love, and Vatsya quotes this case to warn people of the danger arising from some old customs of striking women when under the influence of this passion. Now this king of Kuntal is believed to have lived and reigned during the first century A.D., and consequently Vatsya must have lived after him. On the other hand, Virahamihira, in the eighteenth chapter of his `Brihatsanhita', treats of the science of love, and appears to have borrowed largely from Vatsyayana on the subject. Now Virahamihira is said to have lived during the sixth century A.D., and as Vatsya must have written his works previously, therefore not earlier than the first century A.D., and not later than the sixth century A.D., must be considered as the approximate date of his existence. On the text of the `Aphorisms on Love', by Vatsyayana, only two commentaries have been found. One called `Jayamangla' or `Sutrabashya', and the other `Sutra vritti'. The date of the `Jayamangla' is fixed between the tenth and thirteenth century A.D., because while treating of the sixty-four arts an example is taken from the `Kavyaprakasha' which was written about the tenth century A.D. Again, the copy of the commentary procured was evidently a transcript of a manuscript which once had a place in the library of a Chaulukyan king named Vishaladeva, a fact elicited from the following sentence at the end of it. |
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