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Rather than being exclusively a sex manual, it is a guide on the art of living well, the nature of love, finding partners, and maintaining a relationship, mixing prose with terse aphoristic verse.
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- —Preface18 min
- 1Being the Index to or Contents of the Work4 min
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- 3Chapter 37 min
- 4Part 1, Chapter 3: On the Arts and Sciences to Be Studied9 min
- 5Part 1, Chapter 4: The Life of A Citizen9 min
- 6Chapter 68 min
- 7Part 2, Chapter 1: Kinds of Sexual Union According to10 min
- 8Part 2, Chapter 2: Of the Embrace6 min
- 9Part 2, Chapter 3: On Kissing6 min
- 10Chapter 105 min
- 11Chapter 116 min
- 12Chapter 126 min
- 13Chapter 136 min
- 14Chapter 146 min
- 15Part 2, Chapter 11: Of the Auparishtaka or Mouth Congress14 min
- 16Part 3, Chapter 1: On Marriage6 min
- 17Part 3, Chapter 2: Of Creating Confidence in the Girl7 min
- 18Chapter 187 min
- 19Chapter 197 min
- 20Part 3, Chapter 5: On Certain Forms of Marriage5 min
- 21Chapter 218 min
- 22Chapter 2210 min
- 23Chapter 2310 min
- 24Chapter 246 min
- 25Chapter 255 min
- 26Part 5, Chapter 4: About the Business of A Go-Between11 min
- 27Chapter 277 min
- 28Chapter 2811 min
- 29Chapter 299 min
- 30Part 6, Chapter 2: Of Living Like A Wife7 min
- 31Part 6, Chapter 3: Of the Means of Getting Money8 min
- 32Part 6, Chapter 4: About Re-Union with A Former Lover7 min
- 33Part 6, Chapter 5: Of Different Kinds of Gain7 min
- 34Chapter 3411 min
- 35Chapter 359 min
- 36Chapter 3617 min
The opening
Being the Index to or Contents of the Work
Being The Index To Or Contents Of The Work.
Chapter II. Observations on the three worldly attainments of Virtue, Wealth and Love.
" III. On the study of the Sixty-four Arts.
" IV. On the Arrangements of a House, and Household Furniture; and about the Daily Life of a Citizen, his Companions, Amusements, &c.
" V. About classes of Women fit and unfit for Congress with the Citizen, and of Friends, and Messengers.
PART II.
ON SEXUAL UNION.
Chapter I. Kinds of Union according to Dimensions, Force of Desire, and Time; and on the different kinds of Love.
" II. Of the Embrace.
" III. On Kissing.
" IV. On Pressing or Marking with the Nails.
" V. On Biting, and the ways of Love to be employed with regard to Women of different countries.
" VI. On the various ways of Lying Down, and the different kinds of Congress.
" VII. On the various ways of Striking, and of the Sounds appropriate to them.
" VIII. About females acting the part of Males.
" IX. On holding the Lingam in the Mouth.
" X. How to begin and how to end the Congress. Different kinds of Congress, and Love Quarrels.
PART III.
ABOUT THE ACQUISITION OF A WIFE.
Chapter I. Observations on Betrothal and Marriage.
" II. About creating Confidence in the Girl.
" III. Courtship, and the manifestations of the feelings by outward signs and deeds.
" IV. On things to be done only by the Man, and the acquisition of the Girl thereby. Also what to be done by a Girl to gain over a Man and subject him to her.
" V. On the different Forms of Marriage.
PART IV.
ABOUT A WIFE.
Chapter I. On the manner of living of a virtuous Woman, and of her behaviour during the absence of her Husband.
" II. On the conduct of the eldest Wife towards the other Wives of her husband, and of the younger Wife towards the elder ones. Also on the conduct of a Virgin Widow re-married; of a Wife disliked by her Husband; of the Women in the King's Harem; and of a Husband who has more than one Wife.
PART V.
ABOUT THE WIVES OF OTHER PEOPLE.
Chapter I. On the Characteristics of Men and Women, and the reason why Women reject the Addresses of Men. About Men who have Success with Women, and about Women who are easily gained over.
" II. About making Acquaintance with the Woman, and of the efforts to gain her over.
" III. Examination of the State of a Woman's mind.
" IV. The business of a Go-between.
" V. On the Love of Persons in authority with the Wives of other People.
" VI. About the Women of the Royal Harem, and of the keeping of one's own Wife.
PART VI.
ABOUT COURTESANS.
Chapter I. Of the Causes of a Courtesan resorting to Men; of the means of Attaching to herself the Man desired, and the kind of Man that it is desirable to be acquainted with.
" II. Of a Courtesan living with a Man as his Wife.
" III. Of the means of getting Money; of the Signs of a Lover who is beginning to be weary, and of the way to get rid of him.
" IV. About a Re-union with a former Lover.
" V. Of different kinds of Gain.
" VI. Of Gains and Losses, attendant Gains and Losses, and Doubts; and lastly, the different kinds of Courtesans.
PART VII.
ON THE MEANS OF ATTRACTING OTHERS TO ONE'S SELF.
Chapter I. On Personal Adornment, subjugating the hearts of others, and of tonic medicines.
" II. Of the Means of exciting Desire, and of the ways of enlarging the Lingam. Miscellaneous Experiments and Receipts.
About the author
Vatsyayana
Indian logician, author of Kama Sutra
Mallanāga Vātsyāyana was an ancient Indian philosopher, known for authoring the Kama Sutra. He lived in India during the second or third century CE, probably in Pataliputra.
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