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  Watches-The Ascetic of Desire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
In Kakar's masterful account, we see Vatsayana through the eyes of his pupil, the son of a Brahmin scholar who is embarking on his first exploration of the sensual life.
Vatsayana recounts his own life to the young man, including a childhood spent largely in the brothel where his favorite aunt worked.
Side by side with the unfolding of Vatsayana's life is the story of a young man's coming of age.
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 D e v a d a s i ~ A r t - P e r f u m e ~ F i n e P e r f u m e s ~ Sacred Aromatic Arts ~ - Wishlist...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Vatsayana's story, his interpretations of the ancient rules and more iconoclastic views of eroticism, are dispersed to a young fictional student, a Brahman scholar.
Vatsayana's lectures at the Seven Leaf hermitage include the essence of the Kama Sutra and Hindu mythology that guide the student's mind into the wondrous realm of sensual learning, connecting sexuality to food, money, love, spirituality and transcendence.
Much of Vatsayana's life and ideas are formed by his aunt Chandrika, a renowned courtesan whose sensual explorations end when she is rejected by a young architect.
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 Tribuneindia... This above all
There is no basis whatsoever of his dividing men and women into categories depending on the size of their genitals.
Vatsayana’s categorisation of males into hares, horses and bulls and women into gazelles, mares and the elephants which was basic to his analysis of man-woman physical relationship was entirely arbitrary.
If Kakar is right, Vatsayana was an illegitimate child of a wealthy tradesman and brought up in an establishment of courtesans run by two sisters, one of whom was his father’s mistress.
www.tribuneindia.com /1998/98oct31/saturday/aboveall.htm   (970 words)

  
 Dr Alka Pande
'Vatsayana's kamasutra-'Treatise on Desire' was written in literary Sanskrit in 3rd century AD.
No details are available on the sage Vatsayana except that it was composed in chastity and highest meditation.
Vatsayana cites earlier authors in the course of his own text either to strengthen his own standpoint or to refute earlier viewpoints.
www.alkapande.com /acad_bliss.htm   (3720 words)

  
 Sword of Truth Archives -- Disingenuous People - Part 5   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Vatsayana the author of the Kamasutra is being maligned to the utmost degree by such depraved filth.
And even then, Vatsayana emphasizes over and over again throughout the Kamasutra that the aim of true eroticism is to transcend physicality and seek the spiritual basis of procreation.
In fact the entire basis of transcending Kama, according to Vatsayana, is to gain control over physical desires so that the spiritual aspirant may graduate to the level of asceticism or being a Yogi.
www.swordoftruth.com /swordoftruth/archives/byauthor/aditichaturvedi/dpp5.html   (2808 words)

  
 The Kathmandu Post   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Her erudite presentation on theoretical and methodological issues in the studies of folklore and creative imagination was heard in rapture.
President of the Nepal Folklore Society and chairperson of the valedictory session, irresistible and dynamic Prof Tulsi Diwas, in the last address of the congress, and in his thunderous voice and stirring appeal asked all the scholars and researchers in the field to dedicate their efforts to the common people.
When Dr Vatsayana began her valedictory address by bowing her head and paying tribute to nonagenarian scholar Joshi the audience was moved.
www.kantipuronline.com /archive/kpost/2003-6-8/kp_expression.htm   (3772 words)

  
 Priapus (Cage/Silver Sable/Terror foe)
Terror pulled on the rope, choking Priapus, while Cage rushed forward and tore the Vatsayana Tryst (which was fixed to his chest) from his body.
The disruption in energy flow caused the Carnal Serpent to be reborn inside of Priapus, and it tore free from his body, consuming his form as it did.
Vatsayana's Tryst is a composite item which is somehow connected to the Carnal Serpent.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/priapu.htm   (1325 words)

  
 Log: luck
Vatsayana says 'me bad hp' You didn't find anyone.
Vatsayana stabs *a Man*'s body extremely hard and shatters it.
A blooming water-lily floats on the surface of the water.
www.elvenrunes.com /cgi-bin/logs/mumps?rou=show&log=59799,07620   (1554 words)

  
 Powell's Books - The Women's Kama Sutra by Nitya Lacroix
The "Kama Sutra of Vatsayana, thought to have been written in the fourth century AD, was translated in the 19th century but only reached popular mass attention in the West in the 1960s.
Readers were astounded by the elaborate and complicated sexual positions described and by the bold uncensored approach that it took towards the subject of sex.
The pursuit of "Kama, or the sensual and sexual pleasures of life, was not viewed as decadent indulgences; it was one of the three principal goals of life through which a person could attain the fourth and ultimate goal, "Moksha, which is the liberation of the mind and spirit.
www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0312206275-0   (320 words)

  
 Vatikas of lore
Gardens continued to be an equally important part of the urban landscape in subsequent periods.
In Vatsayana's Kamasutra, "vrakshayur veda" is mentioned as one of 64 kalas or arts recognised in ancient India.
Vatsayana's Kamasutra mentions well trained experts, the aramadhipatis and a special class of skilled artists, gardeners and weavers, malakars and malinis.
www.hinduonnet.com /folio/fo0006/00060160.htm   (1156 words)

  
 The Ascetic of Desire - Sudhir Kakar
And at the point where their stories intersect, the unexpected happens.
The Kama Sutra is the most widely read treatise on sex ever written, while the man who chronicled all there was to experience between men and women remains a mystery.
In The Ascetic of Desire, Sudhir Kakar tells the story of its author, Vatsayana, and his times -- the fourth century A.D., considered the golden age of Indian history -- in a way that promises to make this debut novel a major literary event.
www.englishbooks.it /BUS/1585670073/The_Ascetic_of_Desire.htm   (362 words)

  
 Abbeys Bookshop - Kama Sutra of Vatsayana: Classic Hindu Treatise on Love and Social Conduct   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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The Kama Sutra of Vatsayana: Classic Hindu Treatise on Love and Social Conduct
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 Kama Sutra - Honest views that cuts through the clutter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Written 2,000 years ago by Vatsayana, the Kama Sutra is a comprehensive guide to experiencing total sensual and sexual pleasure.
Along with kissing and embracing, forms of power play that include biting, scratching and slapping were considered an integral part of foreplay by Vatsayana.
Acceptance of this practice differed by region, but Vatsayana's detailed descriptions suggest it was a popular, if illicit, activity.
www.truth-about-man-sexual-health.com /Kama-Sutra.html   (809 words)

  
 Kama Sutra of Vatsayana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Kama Sutra of Vatsayana Review: The Kama Sutra has a huge reputation based on only one of its five sections.
Kama Sutra of Vatsayana Review: Though the KS is infamous as a how-to manual on sex, the section on intercourse is actually quite a small portion of the book.
Interesting, but not very scandalous at all; a catalogue of some of the most minor things, down to different kinds of shapes that your teeth leave when you bite your lover.
www.textkit.com /0_014019360X.html   (1184 words)

  
 Kama Sutra Vatsayana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Kama Sutra of Vatsayana, written sometime during the fourth century, is known primarily as a
Kama Sutra: Vatsayana's classic, brought to the big screen by Mira Nair.
He translated erotica such as the Kama Sutra of Vatsayana and the Arabian Nights into English.
www.powerofcharismabook.com /directory/kama-sutra-vatsayana.html   (420 words)

  
 indiayogi.com
The Kamasutra of the rishi Vatsayana is here graphically illustrated by the artist.
Couples engaged in the act of love are portrayed in positions described by Vatsayana in his world-famous treatise on the art and artiness of sex.
Etched on palm leaf and then filled in with charcoal fl, the figures come alive with an erotic vigour, virility and versatility.
www.indiayogi.com /eshop/paintdetail.asp?id=1430   (252 words)

  
 S. Diwakar
It is also interesting to think of Vatsayana who, living several centuries ago, imagined hundreds of sexual positions that are so vividly carved out of stone and consecrated in our sacred temples.
Westerners, of late, have been very much attracted to this book, and maybe some of them are even trying out those positions, I am sure, quite unsuccessfully.
Had he lived today, Vatsayana would have certainly won the Nobel Prize for this work alone.
www.uiowa.edu /~iwp/EVENpubpresentations/SDiwakar.html   (1103 words)

  
 Taodiary
Only in ancient Hindu scriptures on sexology: the Kamasutras of Vatsayana....
That is the only book one is able to find what can be connected to this incident five thousand years afterwards with Vincent van Gogh, because only Vatsayana says, "Very few people are aware that ear lobes are tremendously sexual and sensitive points in the body.
Freud and Havelock Ellis and other sexologists are just pygmies before Vatsayana.
www.diary-z.de /diaryview.php?diaryid=4629&textid=163203&from_home=1   (659 words)

  
 November 2003 - Hoda Nassef   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
This is attested by Varadpande, referring to the Kamasutra of Vatsayana.
Vatsayana mentions puppets with some kind of inbuilt mechanism yantrani.
With the help of yantras installed in the puppets, animation is given to them.
www.mashi.com /columnists/hodanassef/2003/hoda-dec-03.htm   (1400 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Gowda said speaking about sex, which was once considered a social taboo, is being accepted as part of education to build a healthy society.
He said Vatsayana's Kamasutra is still considered an authoritative work on sex.
He pointed out that there are several lacunae in the education system, and the failure to introduce sex education as one of the subjects at the school level is one of them.
www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005022101740300.htm&date=2005/02/21/&prd=th&   (290 words)

  
 CME's Cryptography Timeline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Kama Sutra of Vatsayana lists cryptography as the 44th and 45th of 64 arts (yogas) men and women should know and practice.
The date of this work is unclear but is believed to be between the first and fourth centuries, AD.
[Another expert, John W. Spellman, will commit only to the range between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD.] Vatsayana says that his Kama Sutra is a compilation of much earlier works, making the dating of the cryptography references even more uncertain.
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 The Kamasutra of Vatsayana (hardcover book, out-of-print in the U.S.) by the Indian sage Vatsayana   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Sexuality is acknowledged as a form of psychic energy which can legitimately find expression in a myriad ways, ranging from tender romantic love and conjugal concord to straightforward lust.
This book combines the Hindu sage Vatsayana's celebrated treatise with illustrations from various schools of painting on the theme of sexual pleasure.
The intention of these works was to provide instruction as well as enjoyment.
www.sevenrays.com /catalog/describe?item=8174370633   (420 words)

  
 Comixfan Forums - For Love Nor Money
Part 1 - Terror Inc. #11 - Terror, Silver Sable and Cage are each hired separately by an unknown party (secretly Priapus) to recover a piece of Vatsayana’s Tryst.
Part 2 - Cage #15 - Terror unites the pieces to reform Vatsayana’s Tryst, but Cage takes it from him.
Part 3 - Silver Sable and The Wild Pack #13 - Everyone discovers they are working for Priapus, who steals the Tryst and tries to kill them.
www.comixfan.com /xfan/forums/printthread.php?t=26165   (323 words)

  
 Kama Sutra of Vatsayana
It seems that the Alain Daniélou translation is good, but I have not read that specific one.
This book has a wide reputation among English-speaking readers, especially among those who havent read it.
Though the KS is infamous as a how-to manual on sex, the section on intercourse is actually quite a small portion of the book.
www.wkonline.com /a/Kama_Sutra_of_Vatsayana_014019360X.htm   (1242 words)

  
 Gossip: ‘VATSAYANA KAMASUTRA’ On Telugu Screen!
‘Vatsayana Kamasutra’ is in pipeline to glue on to the south Indian celluloid under a considerable big budget scheme.
The film is proposed to hit the screens in all the three states Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh and Kerala at a time.
Let us wait and see if she accepts.
www.greatandhra.com /movies/gusagusalu/mar2005/tarika_kama.html   (197 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: The Ascetic of Desire: A Novel of the Kama Sutra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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Chandrika's transformation, and Vatsayana's eventual betrayal by his wife and his student, provide touching, psychologically complex insights into the notions of both "ascetic" and "desire." Throughout the book, Kakar offers a tantalizing view of how sex is constructed, dreamed, subdued and performed in culturally specific contexts and through history, rich folklore and marvelous parables.
It's an impassioned and unusual tale dense with scintillating details and sexual philosophy.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1585672807   (739 words)

  
 Indiaclub.com Search Results - ProductID: 1462
Along with copious notes on Vatsayana's life, the subject jots down erotic slokas from Kama Sutra.
What emerges through incidence and superimposition is a powerful narrative of lust and sensuality imbued with an old-world charm and a surprising sense of irony.
Explaining the title of his book, Kakkar says : The only thing one knows about Vatsayana is that he wrote Kama Sutra as a religious student, who was obsessed with the idea of sex and desire, but who did not indulge in it.
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 viggy.com - Exclusive Kannada Film News, New Releases, Reviews, Songs, Photographs, Interviews, Wallpapers and Screen ...
Several knotty questions including 'who translated Vatsayana Kaama Soothra to English?', 'What is the eleventh chapter of its second part?'...
Failing to answer these questions is as good as literally demonstrating what third chapter of first part of Vatsayana Kaama Soothra - that's kissing.
These are the samples of betting between Neelamegha and Shyam - two college teens.
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 Kama Sutra of Vatsayana | Taran's Tree House   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
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