Kama Sutra, Kama Sutra - Preceding history, Kama Sutra - Time and background of <i>Kama Sutra</i>, Kama Sutra - Translations, Kama, Sutra, Kamashastra (Kamasutra is said to have originated from Kamashastra)
ARTICLES RELATED TO Kama Sutra - Preceding history
Kamasutram, generally known to the Western world as Kama Sutra, is an ancient Hindu text on human sexual behavior, widely considered to be the standard work on love in Sanskrit literature. The text was composed by Vatsyayana, (pronounced Vaats-yaa-yan), as a brief summary of various earlier works belonging to a tradition known generically as Kama Shastra, the science of love. Kama is literally desire. Sutra signfies a thread, or discourse threaded on a series of aphorisms. Sut ...
Vatsyayana seems to have lived around the 4th century AD, at a time of cultural prosperity known as the Gupta period. The fact that Varaha Mihira in his Brihad Samhita (around the 6th century AD) claims to have drawn his inspirations from the Kama Sutra, and the Kama Sutra's mention of King Shatakarni Shatavahana who lived in the 1st century BC gives the ranges for the possible production time of the Kama Sutra.
Vatsyayana claims the various major works of Kama Shastra had become difficult to access, which ...
