The Complete Kama Sutra 1994 Vintage HC/DJ Park Street Press

The Complete Kama Sutra 1994 Vintage HC/DJ Park Street PressThe First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text Park Street Press This definitive volume is the first modern translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra to include two essential commentaries: the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and the modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Alain Danilou spent four years comparing versions of the Kama Sutra in Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, and English, drawing on his intimate experience of India, to preserve the full explicitness of the original. I wanted to demystify India, he writes, to show that a period of great civilization, of high culture, is forcibly a period of great liberty. some slight tears and bends on jacket edges, overall book in very good condition.