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The history of the Kama Sutra is a long one. Its one of the worlds eldest books about pleasure and physical living. There is no solitary author of the text, but it was initially assembled in the third century by Vatsyayana, an Indian sage who lived in the northern part of India. He claimed to be a monk practicing celibacy, and his work in amassing the sexual information of the ages was a way for him to meditate and contemplate the deity. Written in a complex form of Sanskrit, the Kama Sutra is the only remaining text of that era of early Indian history.

In scholarly circles, its been widely consulted by scholars to determine the social mores and understand the society of that time period. The title of the text translates to a treatise on pleasure. Far more complex than just a listing of the contortionist positions, the Kama Sutra is a all-inclusive handbook of living for the good of life. Although the central character of this work is a man-about-town, the text was written to be read by and provide detailed information for both men and women.

The basic tenant of this book is that in order for a marriage to be happy, both the man and woman have to be well-versed in the art of pleasure, both cerebral and carnal. The topics explored include social concepts, society, sexual union, the acquisition of a wife, about the wife, about the wives of other men, about courtesans, and on the ways to attract others to yourself. The book has detailed advice on what men must do to win over a woman and what a woman must do in order to win over a man, the states of a womans mind, the role of a go-between, and the reasons why women might reject the advances of a man.

In terms of finding a mate, the Kama Sutra counsels on whether to think about someone from childhood friends or fellow students. It provides diagrams that classify female and male physical types and the compatibility they will have with their lovers body. It teaches varieties of kissing, embracing, biting, scratching, oral sex, and intercourse that are elaborate. The text also has instructions on extramarital relationships, including the wives of other men, and has many pages on how to seduce and extort the courtesan.

Finally, in case all the knowledge in this book should fail in winning the love that a person seeks, the final chapter contains foods, tonics, and powders that have the power to help attract others to that person.

Some refer to this book as the marriage manual, but its a far cry from the monogamous and dutiful bindings of marriage that Westerns produced as a part of advice for couples. One of the central figures of the book is the courtesan, who must master and practice a variety of arts in order to learn how to please and coerce a man. What is unique about Kama Sutra is that maintains focus on creating pleasure for the woman, too. A man who fails to provide and bring about pleasure to a woman during intercourse will lose her because she will seek it from somewhere else.

Kama Sutra is the original study of sexuality, and so it became the focal point of all proceeding books, including the fifteenth century Ananga-Ranga, which was a revised version that built upon the Vatsyayanas basic beliefs. Yet due to the complex and inaccessible style of Sanskrit in which it was written, the Kama Sutra fell into obscurity for many centuries. Scholars of Sanskrit and ancient Indian did not consult it often. It wasnt until the late nineteenth century that the Kama Sutra began to resume its popularity in Indian.

The resurgence came about after the 1870s when Sir Richard Burton, a noted linguist and Arabic translator, worked with his collaborators to produce a translation of the Ananga-Ranga. When they were pursuing references to the Vatsyayana, they were led back to the Kama Sutra and an English version was produced. Burtons persistence in having this book translated so that Western readers could read it, and the interest the text generated in Indian and abroad, led to a proliferation of translations and versions of this original book.

The Ananga-Ranga was created in the fifteenth century and was an updated version of the Kama Sutra, written in a more understandable Sanskrit that its earlier predecessor. Because of this, for many centuries the Ananga-Ranga superseded the Kama Sutra in being the text of choice to look at for knowledge about sexual pleasure. The writing of this book was ordered by the nobleman Ladakhana for one of the Lodi Dynastys monarch. This family was a powerful part of Delhi Sultanate, who ruled over the northern part of India before the Mughal Dynasty took over. The author of the Ananga-Ranga, Kalyanamalla was a Hindu poet who referred back to the Kama Sutra heavily in order to prepare his text.