Lawrence, Havelock Ellis and Sigmund Freud, that love is essentially tenderness between the male and the female and therefore sacred to the human sensibility.”. The reason for the publishing of this book is given by none other than Anand: “The primary purpose is that this classic may be lifted from its prurient popularity, to its status as a dance book of knowledge and passion, which can go to those members of the world intelligentsia, who are emancipated enough from the taboos of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, to the views of D. Perhaps one of the most aesthetic and beautiful editions is the one by Lance Dean, published in 1982 with the blessings of Anand. Some new editions (a few illustrated ones), are sincere efforts at giving value to the Kamsutra as a great book of the Indian heritage, now perhaps of the heritage of world cultures. Most of the re-issues have been for public circulation only, catering for the pornography market of the pavement stalls of big cities. In fact, in the Hindu way of life, spirituality is not against pleasure, it is seen as transcending the need for pleasure.Īrbuthnot and published by them, ‘for private circulation only’ in 1883. For the first time, in my own pilgrimages, I realised how, underneath the harsh discriminations of latter-day orthodoxies, the free spirits of our country had accepted love between man and woman as the source of pleasure and progeny, and treated the themes of physical union to evoke bliss, as in the works of Kalidasa of the fourth century A. For example, Mulk Raj Anand, in his preface to the translation of the text by Lance Dean, states: “By sheer coincidence, Lance Dane, who has been obsessed with love for Indian pictorial and plastic arts, showed me some of the photographs he had taken during his more than a quarter of a century’s search for beauty in art. Sanskrit literature is full of many erotic and poignant displays of physical love. This is actually a misunderstanding of both tantra and the Kamsutra itself. The Purpose of Vatsyayana’s Kamsutra The Kamsutra is often thought to be a book on tantra and tantric sex.
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