Vatsyayana

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Vatsyayana

Best known as the credited author of the Kama Sutra, this ancient Indian writer is still read for a work that is far broader than its modern reputation suggests. His book explores love, relationships, marriage, and social life as much as sensual pleasure.

2 Audiobooks

Théologie hindoue. Le Kama soutra.

Théologie hindoue. Le Kama soutra.

by Vatsyayana

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks

by Vatsyayana

About the author

Very little is known for certain about Vātsyāyana as a historical person, and most accounts describe him as an ancient Indian scholar traditionally placed around the early centuries of the Common Era. He is chiefly remembered for the Kama Sutra, a Sanskrit text that became one of the most famous works associated with love and desire.

Although the Kama Sutra is often reduced to its erotic passages, the work itself has a wider scope. It discusses courtship, marriage, household life, social customs, and the place of pleasure within a larger vision of human aims.

That mix of practical advice, observation, and philosophy is part of what has kept Vātsyāyana's name alive for so long. Even today, he remains a fascinating and somewhat mysterious figure whose best-known book continues to be reinterpreted across cultures.