The Complete Kama Sutra: The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text

The Complete Kama Sutra: The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text Paperback – Unabridged, December 1, 1993 by Alain Daniélou (Translator).

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.

Product details

• Format Paperback | 576 pages
• Dimensions 150 x 230 x 40mm | 760g
• Publication date 03 Jan 2000
• Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and Company
• Publication City/Country Rochester, United States
• Language English
• Edition Abridged
• Edition Statement Original ed.
• ISBN10 0892815256
• ISBN13 9780892815258