kamshutra is what?

Answer 1

Kama Sutra

Kamasutram, generally known to the Western world as Kama Sutra, is an ancient Indian text on human sexual behavior, widely considered to be the standard work on love in Sanskrit literature. The text was composed by Vatsyayana, as a brief summary of various earlier works belonging to a tradition known generically as Kama Shastra, the science of love. Kama is literally desire. Sutra signifies a thread, or discourse threaded on a series of aphorisms. Sutra was a standard term for a technical text, thus also the Yogasutram of Patanjali. The text is originally known as Vatsyayana Kamasutram ("Vatsyayana's Aphorisms on Love"). Tradition holds that the author was a celibate scholar. He is believed to have lived sometime between the 1st to 6th centuries AD, probably during the great cultural flowering of the Gupta period.

Answer 2

The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian text on sex, widely considered to be the standard work on love in the Sanskrit literature. The text was written by Vatsyayana. The full title of the text is vātsyāyana kāma sūtra ("Aphorisms on Love, by Vatsyayana"). The author is believed to have lived sometime between the 1st to 6th centuries A.D, probably during the Gupta period.

Answer 3

It is the Scandanavian spelling for Kama Sutra, an Indian art of love making

Answer 4

It is a book written on the topic sex..The very name of the book itself makes the reader to know the contents.. The word 'kama' means sex and the other half means formulas or rules for the former.. It is said that a reprinted edition is being published recently.. It is also said that it is especially for women..!

Answer 5

Kamasutram, generally known to the Western world as Kama Sutra, is an ancient Indian text on human sexual behavior, widely considered to be the standard work on love in Sanskrit literature. The text was composed by Vatsyayana, as a brief summary of various earlier works belonging to a tradition known generically as Kama Shastra, the science of love. Kama is literally desire. Sutra signifies a thread, or discourse threaded on a series of aphorisms. Sutra was a standard term for a technical text, thus also the Yogasutram of Patanjali. The text is originally known as Vatsyayana Kamasutram ("Vatsyayana's Aphorisms on Love"). Tradition holds that the author was a celibate scholar. He is believed to have lived sometime between the 1st to 6th centuries AD, probably during the great cultural flowering of the Gupta period.

Preceding history

For more details on this topic, see Kamashastra.

* The earliest text of the Kama Shastra tradition, said to have contained a vast amount of information, is attributed to Nandi the sacred bull, Shiva's doorkeeper, who was moved to sacred utterance by overhearing the lovemaking of the god and his wife Parvati.[1]
* During the 8th century BC, Shvetaketu, son of Uddalaka, produced a summary of Nandi's work. However this "summary" was still too vast to be accessible.

Modern translated version of the original Sanskrit.
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Modern translated version of the original Sanskrit.

* A scholar called Babhravya, together with a group of his disciples, produced a summary of Shvetaketu's summary. This remained a huge and encyclopaedic tome.
* Between the 3rd and 1st centuries BC, several authors reproduced different parts of the Babhravya group's work in various specialist treatises. Among the authors, those whose names are known are Charayana, Ghotakamukha, Gonardiya, Gonikaputra, Suvarnanabha, and Dattaka:

— Dattaka composed a work on courtesans which Vatsyayana reproduces almost entirely in Kama Sutra.
— Suvarnanabha's text mentions Shatakarni Shatavahana, a king of the 1st century BC who killed his own wife accidentally during sadistic practices, thus giving a hint on the time period it was written.

* Yashodhara, in his commentary of Kama Sutra, attributes the origin of ****** science to Mallanaga, the "prophet of the Asuras", meaning it originated in prehistoric times. Nandi is then said to have transcribed it for mankind. The attribution of the name "Mallanaga" to Vatsyayana is due to the confusion of his role as editor of the Kama Sutra with that of the mythical creator of ****** science.

Answer 6

Did you think it was a hobby??? I think you need to ask this question else where. Though I must admit I learned more about it from some of the people who graciously answered it for you. i wish to thank them for the info. I needed a history lesson anyway. Sorry I can't help you.

Answer 7

Kamashutra is an art of reading 'love making' the old Indian way, but doing it the western way.

Answer 8

According to my knowledge KAMASUTRA means some thing related to sex AND remember it is also a CONDOM

Answer 9

different sex positions. this helps couples get closer through sex and relationship

Answer 10

kama sutra maybe ?