The Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana

In the literature of all countries there will be found a certain number of works treating especially of love. Everywhere the subject is dealt with differently, and from various points of view. In the present publication it is proposed to give a complete translation of what is considered the standard work on love in Sanscrit literature, and which is called the 'Vatsyayana Kama Sutra', or Aphorisms on Love, by Vatsyayana.

INTRODUCTION

1.1 PREFACE

1.2 ON THE ACQUISITION OF DHARMA, ARTHA AND KAMA

1.3 ON THE ARTS AND SCIENCES TO BE STUDIED

1.4 THE LIFE OF A CITIZEN

1.5 ABOUT THE KINDS OF WOMEN RESORTED TO BY THE CITIZENS, AND OF FRIENDS AND MESSENGERS

2.1 KINDS OF SEXUAL UNION ACCORDING TO DIMENSIONS, FORCE OF DESIRE OR PASSION, TIME

2.2 OF THE EMBRACE

2.3 ON KISSING

2.4 ON PRESSING, OR MARKING, OR SCRATCHING WITH THE NAILS

2.5 ON BITING, AND THE MEANS TO BE EMPLOYED WITH REGARD TO WOMEN OF DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

2.6 OF THE DIFFERENT WAYS OF LYING DOWN, AND VARIOUS KINDS OF CONGRESS

2.7 OF THE VARIOUS MODES OF STRIKING, AND OF THE SOUNDS APPROPRIATE TO THEM

2.8 ABOUT WOMEN ACTING THE PART OF A MAN; AND OF THE WORK OF A MAN

2.9 OF THE AUPARISHTAKA OR MOUTH CONGRESS

2.10 OF THE WAY HOW TO BEGIN AND HOW TO END THE CONGRESS. DIFFERENT KINDS OF CONGRESS AND LOVE QUARRELS

3.1 ON MARRIAGE

3.2 OF CREATING CONFIDENCE IN THE GIRL

3.3 ON COURTSHIP, AND THE MANIFESTATION OF THE FEELINGS BY OUTWARD SIGNS AND DEEDS

3.4 ABOUT THINGS TO BE DONE ONLY BY THE MAN, AND THE ACQUISITION OF THE GIRL

3.5 ON CERTAIN FORMS OF MARRIAGE

4.1 ON THE MANNER OF LIVING OF A VIRTUOUS WOMAN, AND OF HER BEHAVIOUR DURING THE ABSENCE OF HER HUSBAND

4.2 ON THE CONDUCT OF THE ELDER WIFE TOWARDS THE OTHER WIVES OF HER HUSBAND, AND ON THAT OF A YOUNGER WIFE TOWARDS THE ELDER ONES

5.1 OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF MEN AND WOMEN

5.2 ABOUT MAKING ACQUAINTANCE WITH THE WOMAN, AND OF THE EFFORTS TO GAIN HER OVER

5.3 EXAMINATION OF THE STATE OF A WOMAN'S MIND

5.4 ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF A GO-BETWEEN

5.5 ABOUT THE LOVE OF PERSONS IN AUTHORITY FOR THE WIVES OF OTHER MEN

5.6 ABOUT THE WOMEN OF THE ROYAL HAREM; AND OF THE KEEPING OF ONE'S OWN WIFE

6.1 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

6.2 OF THE CAUSES OF A COURTESAN RESORTING TO MEN

6.3 OF LIVING LIKE A WIFE

6.4 OF THE MEANS OF GETTING MONEY, OF THE SIGNS OF THE CHANGE OF A LOVER'S FEELINGS, AND OF THE WAY TO GET RID OF HIM

6.5 ABOUT RE-UNION WITH A FORMER LOVER

6.6 OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF GAIN

6.7 OF GAINS AND LOSSES; ATTENDANT GAINS AND LOSSES; AND DOUBTS; AS ALSO OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF COURTESANS

7.1 ON PERSONAL ADORNMENT; ON SUBJUGATING THE HEARTS OF OTHERS; AND ON TONIC MEDICINES

7.2 OF THE WAYS OF EXCITING DESIRE, AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS, AND RECIPES

7.3 CONCLUDING REMARKS