The illustrated Kama Sutra : Ananga-ranga, perfumed garden / the Sir Richard and F.F. Arbuthnot translations ; edited and introduced by Charles Fowkes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vātsyāyana.

Contributor:

Burton, Richard Francis, Sir, 1821-1890.

Arbuthnot, F. F.

Fowkes, Charles.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Classic eastern love texts.

The Classic eastern love texts

Standardized Title:

Kāmasūtra. English

Language:

English

Sanskrit

Subjects (All):

Sex instruction.

Love.

Erotic literature.

Erotic art--India.

Erotic art.

India.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

156 pages : color plates ; 28 cm.

Other Title:

Ananga-ranga

Perfumed garden

Place of Publication:

Rochester, Vt. : Park Street Press, 1991.

Summary:

Sexual frankness without a hint of guilt or prurience is the great legacy which the Eastern, and in particular Indian, traditions have given us. As an expression of human culture, and as a pillow book for the modern boudoir, the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana the most famous work on sex ever written the Ananga-Ranga of Kalyana Malla, and Sheikh Nefzai's Perfumed Garden, set forth the principles of sensual pleasure with poetry, wisdom, and humor, celebrating love as an ecstatic expression of life's beauty.Here, for the first time, Sir Richard Burton's translations of the classic Eastern love texts have been published in one volume.The first Kama Sutra to be illustrated in color with a dazzling and unique collection of Indian painting and sculpture. These erotic treatises are not sex manuals in the modern sense clinical collections of coital postures but a broader and more humane exploration of Eastern sexual customs.

Contents:

Contents.

The kama sutra of Vatsyayana.

The Ananga-Ranga of Kalyana Malla.

The perfumed garden of Sheikh Nefzawi.

ISBN:

0892814411

9780892814411

OCLC:

25820102