Books by Vatsyayana

This definitive volume is the first modern translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra to include two essential commentaries: the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and the modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Alain Danilou spent four years comparing versions of the Kama Sutra in Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, and English, drawing on his intimate experience of India, to preserve the full explicitness of the original. I wanted to demystify India, he writes, to show that a period of great civilization, of high culture, is forcibly a period of great liberty.

The Illustrated Koka Shastra explores all matters sexual, from setting the mood to explicit instruction on technique. In this edition, Comfort's translation is supplemented with explanatory notes and commentary. Explicit images drawn from a collection of ancient Indian paintings and sculptures - many never before published - complement and augment the classic text. This collection of instruction for intimate relations includes the complete text of the Koka Shastra and Ratimanjari, along with other significant medieval Indian writings on love such as the Ananga Ranga (the Stage of Love-God) and the Panchasaiyaka (the Five Arrows). This celebration of sex and sexuality is an invitation to explore a state of mind that accepts physical intimacy as a positive good and its elaboration as a natural part of life.

An ancient text on the art of erotic love combines all aspects of sex with a sexual psychology and a narrative of seduction and consummation.

A new edition of the classic Hindu guide to spiritual enlightenment through erotic practice offers fifty teachings from the ancient text, accompanied by fifty full-color reproductions of Indian erotic art, that cover the gamut of sexual practice from the techniques of kissing to role reversal.

A work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry, and sexology, the "Kama Sutra" has been a classic of world literature for more than 1700 years.

The perfect little book to slip under the pillow of someone you desire, this tasteful introduction to the Kama Sutra--the erotically charged and lavishly illustrated classic sex guide for more than 2,000 years--is a source of inspired, intimate gift-exchanging between lovers.

A work of philosophy, psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, scientific inquiry, and sexology, the "Kama Sutra" has been a classic of world literature for more than 1700 years. This updated translation of the famous 13th-century Sanskrit version on erotic love emphasizes the psychological essence of intimate relationships and ultimately of life, proving it to be much more than a sex manual.