[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Polity, Pleasure & Law](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti) › [Erotics and the Art of Love](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama) › [Kamasutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana) › 1.1 # Kamasutra 1.1 Kāmasūtra 1.1 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1) śāstrasaṃgrahaḥ ### [1.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.1) dharmārthakāmebhyo namaḥ// > Salutation to Dharma, Artha, and Kama. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [1.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.2) śāstre prakṛtatvāt// ### [1.1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.3) tat samayāvabodhakebhyaś cācāryebhyaḥ// ### [1.1.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.4) tat saṃbandhāt// ### [1.1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.5) prajāpatir hi prajāḥ sṛṣṭvā tāṣāṃ sthitinibandhanaṃ trivargasya sādhanam adhyāyānāṃ śatasahasreṇāgre provāca// > In the beginning, the Lord of Beings created men and women, and in the form of commandments in one hundred thousand chapters laid down rules for regulating their existence with regard to Dharma, Artha, and Kama. Some of these commandments, namely those which treated of Dharma, were separately written by Swayambhu Manu; those that related to Artha were compiled by Brihaspati; and those that referred to Kama were expounded by Nandi, the follower of Mahadeva, in one thousand chapters. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [1.1.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.6) tasyaikadeśikaṃ manuḥ svāyaṃbhuvo dharmādhikārikaṃ pṛthak cakāra// ### [1.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.7) bṛhaspatir arthādhikārikam// ### [1.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.8) mahādevānucaraś ca nandī sahasreṇādhyāyānāṃ pṛthak kāmasūtraṃ provāca// ### [1.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.9) tad eva tu pañcabhir adhyāyaśatair auddālakiḥ śvetaketuḥ saṃcikṣepa// > Now these "Kama Sutra" (Aphorisms on Love), written by Nundi in one thousand chapters, were reproduced by Shvetaketu, the son of Uddvalaka, in an abbreviated form in five hundred chapters, and this work was again similarly reproduced in an abridged form, in one hundred and fifty chapters, by Babhravya, an inheritant of the Punchala (South of Delhi) country. These one hundred and fifty chapters were then put together under seven heads or parts named severally— > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [1.1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.10) tad eva tu punar adhyardhenādhyāyaśatena sādhāraṇasāṃprayogikakanyāsaṃprayuktakabhāryādhikārikapāradārikavaiśi kaupaniṣadikaḥ saptabhir adhikaraṇair bābhravyaḥ pāñcālaḥ saṃcikṣepa// > 1st. Sadharana (general topics). > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana > 2nd. Samprayogika (embraces, etc.). > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana > 3rd. Kanya Samprayuktaka (union of males and females). > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana > 4th. Bharyadhikarika (on one's own wife). > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana > 5th. Paradarika (on the wives of other people). > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana > 6th. Vaisika (on courtezans). > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana > 7th. Aupamishadika (on the arts of seduction, tonic medicines, etc.). > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [1.1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.11) tasya ṣaṣṭhaṃ vaiśikam adhikaraṇaṃ pāṭaliputrikāṇāṃ gaṇikānāṃ niyogād dattakaḥ pṛthak cakāra// > The sixth part of this last work was separately expounded by Dattaka at the request of the public women of Pataliputra (Patna), and in the same way Charayana explained the first part of it. The remaining parts, viz., the second, third, fourth, fifth, and seventh were each separately expounded by:— > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [1.1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.12) tat prasaṅgāc cārāyaṇaḥ sādhāraṇam adhikaraṇaṃ pṛthak provāca/ suvarṇanābhaḥ sāṃprayogikam/ ghoṭakamukhaḥ kanyāsaṃprayuktakam/ gonardīyo bhāryādhikārikam/ goṇikāputraḥ pāradārikam/ kucumāra aupaniṣadikam iti/ > Suvarnanabha (second part). > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana > Ghotakamukha (third part). > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana > Gonatdiya (fourth part). > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana > Gonikaputra (fifth part). > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana > Kuchumara (seventh part), respectively. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [1.1.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.13) evaṃ bahubhir ācāryais tacchāstraṃ khaṇḍaśaḥ praṇītam utsannakalpam abhūt/ > Thus the work being written in part by different authors was almost unobtainable, and as the parts which were expounded by Dattaka and the others treated only of the particular branches of the subject to which each part related, and moreover as the original work of Babhravya was difficult to be mastered on account of its length, Vatsyayana, therefore, composed this work in a small volume as an abstract of the whole of the works of the above-named authors. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [1.1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.14) tatra dattakādibhiḥ praṇītānāṃ śāstrāvayavānām ekadeśatvāt, mahad iti ca bābhravīyasya duradhyeyatvāt, saṃkṣipya sarvam artham alpena granthena kāmasūtram idaṃ praṇītam// ### [1.1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.15) tasyāyaṃ prakaraṇādhikaraṇasamuddeśaḥ --- ### [1.1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.16) śāstrasaṃgrahaḥ/ trivargapratipattiḥ/ vidyāsamuddeśaḥ/ nāgarikavṛttam/ nāyakasahāyadūtīkarmavimarśaḥ/ iti sādhāraṇaṃ prathamam adhikaraṇam/ adhyāyāḥ pañca/ prakaraṇāni pañca/ ### [1.1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.17) pramāṇakālabhāvebhyo ratāvasthāpanam/ prītiviśeṣāḥ/ āliṅganavicārāḥ/ cumbanavikalpāḥ/ nakharadanajātayaḥ/ daśanacchedyavidhayaḥ/ deśyā upacārāḥ/ saṃveśanaprakārāḥ/ citraratāni/ prahaṇanayogāḥ/ tadyuktāś ca sītkṛtopakramāḥ/ puruṣāyitam/ puruṣopasṛptāni/ aupariṣṭakam/ ratārambhāvasānikam/ rataviśeṣāḥ/ praṇayakalahaḥ/ iti sāṃprayogikaṃ dvitīyam adhikaraṇam/ adhyāyā daśa/ prakaraṇāni saptadaśa/ ### [1.1.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.18) varaṇavidhānam/ saṃbandhanirṇayaḥ/ kanyāvisrambhaṇam/ \*bālāyā upakramāḥ/ iṅgitākārasūcanam/ ekapuruṣābhiyogaḥ/ prayojyasyopāvartanam/ abhiyogataś ca kanyāyāḥ pratipattiḥ/ vivāhayogaḥ/ iti kanyāsaṃprayuktakaṃ tṛtīyam adhikaraṇam/ adhyāyāḥ pañca/ prakaraṇāni nava/ ### [1.1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.19) ekacāriṇīvṛttam/ pravāsacaryā/ sapatnīṣu jyeṣṭhāvṛttam/ kaniṣṭhāvṛttam/ punarbhūvṛttam/ durbhagāvṛttam/ \*āntaḥpurikam/ puruṣasya bahvīṣu pratipattiḥ/ iti bhāryādhikārikaṃ caturtham adhikaraṇam/ adhyāyau dvau/ prakaraṇāny aṣṭau/ ### [1.1.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.20) strīpuruṣaśīlāvasthāpanam/ vyāvartanakāraṇāni/ strīṣu siddhāḥ puruṣāḥ/ ayatnasādhyā yoṣitaḥ/ paricayakāraṇāni/ abhiyogāḥ/ bhāvaparīkṣā/ dūtīkarmāṇi/ īśvarakāmitam/ āntaḥpurikaṃ dārarakṣitakam/ iti pāradārikaṃ pañcamam adhikaraṇam/ adhyāyāḥ ṣaṭ/ prakaraṇāni daśa/ ### [1.1.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.21) gamyacintā/ gamanakāraṇāni/ upāvartanavidhiḥ/ kāntānuvartanam/ arthāgamopāyāḥ/ viraktaliṅgāni/ viraktapratipattiḥ/ niṣkāsanaprakārāḥ/ viśīrṇapratisaṃdhānam/ lābhaviśeṣaḥ/ arthānarthānubandhasaṃśayavicāraḥ/ veśyāviśeṣāś ca/ iti vaiśikaṃ ṣaṣṭham adhikaraṇam/ adhyāyāḥ ṣaṭ/ prakaraṇāni dvādaśa/ ### [1.1.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.22) subhagaṃ karaṇam/ vaśīkaraṇam/ vṛṣyāś ca yogāḥ/ naṣṭarāgapratyānayanam/ vṛddhividhayaḥ/ citrāś ca yogāḥ/ ity aupaniṣadikaṃ saptamam adhikaraṇam/ adhyāyau dvau/ prakaraṇāni ṣaṭ/ ### [1.1.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.23) evaṃ ṣaṭtriṃśad adhyāyāḥ/ catuḥṣaṣṭiḥ prakaraṇāni/ adhikaraṇāni sapta/ sapādaṃ ślokasahasram/ iti śāstrasya saṃgrahaḥ// ### [1.1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.24) saṃkṣepam imam uktvāsya vistaro 'taḥ pravakṣyate/ iṣṭaṃ hi viduṣāṃ loke samāsavyāsabhāṣaṇam// ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.1.1.p1) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.1.p1) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.1.1) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (5) - [Kauṭilīya Arthaśāstra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.artha.kautilya.1.1.2) — Kauṭilya, Sanskrit - [History of Sanskrit Poetics](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.kane-1951.c6.36) — P. V. Kane, English - [A History of Indian Medical Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.meulenbeld-1999.v2.c37.328) — G. Jan Meulenbeld, English - [Studies in the History of Sanskrit Poetics](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.de-1923.v1.c5.1) — Sushil Kumar De, English - [Kāmakuñjalatā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.kamakunjalata.21.1) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1) · Pramāṇa