Kamasutra (Kāmasūtra)
कामसूत्रम्
Aphorisms on Love
Vātsyāyana
Vātsyāyana's treatise in 7 books (adhikaraṇas), 36 chapters, on pleasure within the trivarga, sex, courtship, marriage and courtesans.
- Language
- Sanskrit
- Date
- 200–300 CE
- Author
- Vātsyāyana Mallanāga
- Extent
- 1,575 passages, 14,466 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- gretil · based on the edition of Kamasutram with commentary of Yasodhara, dvitiyam samskaranam,… · Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.…
Contents
- 0 Front matter — 21 parts
- 1 — 5 parts
- 2 — 10 parts
- 3 — 5 parts
- 4 — 2 parts
- 5 — 6 parts
- 6 — 6 parts
- 7 — 2 parts
Recensions and editions (2)
- Nirṇayasāgara edition (1900) — Sanskrit
- Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes) — Sanskrit
Commentaries (9)
- Jayamaṅgalā — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit
- Sūtravṛtti — Bhāskara Nṛsiṃha, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Kāmasūtraṭīkā — Malladeva, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Kandarpacūḍāmaṇi — Vīrabhadra(deva), Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Kandarpacūr̤āmaṇi — Vīrabhadra, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Kramasūtraṭīkā — Kṣemarāja, Sanskrit
- Prauḍhapriyā (Bhāskara Nṛsiṃha) — Bhāskara Nṛsiṃha, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Prauḍhapriyā (Narasiṃha Śāstrin) — Narasiṃha Śāstrin, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
- Prauḍhapriyā (Nṛsiṃha) — Nṛsiṃha, Sanskrit, not yet digitised
Translations (3)
- The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana — English
- Das Kāmasūtram des Vātsyāyana — German, not yet digitised
- Kamasutra — English, not yet digitised
Versions and retellings
See also: more in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra and its Tradition
- Kandarpacudamani (Kandarpacūḍāmaṇi) — Sanskrit; 1577 CE; partly digitised
Discussed in 87 studies in Pramāṇa (listed on the page).