i want to know what kamasutra is really abt?

Answer 1

The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of
E R O T I C love. It is not....as most people think, a book about the positions in sexual intercourse.

It is a book about the art of living.....about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtsan, using drugs....and also about the positions in sextual intercourse.

The two words in it's title means :
"kama" ----- desire,love,pleasure,sex
"sutra" ----- a theatise.

The Kamasutra was composed in Sanskrit, the literary language of ancient India by Vatsyayana.

Answer 2

Kamasutra is about how to get ultimate enjoyment in sex and also covers related arts such as music, makeup, body and skin care, though today, ony sex is highlighted and other aspects are subdued under the ****** content.

Answer 3

Don't get disturbed. Check out at the following sites to get the correct picture:
www.amazon.com/Kamasutra-Oxford-Classics-Mallanaga-Vatsyayana
www.spaceandmotion.com/kamasutra.htm
www.spaceandmotion.com/Philosophy-Kamasutra-Kama-Sutra.htm
www.kamasutra-sex.org/

Answer 4

ok..firts off..answerdog...you are wrong. its not all about positions. if you really read the book you would have seen that it is a treasure trove of knowledge on how to make a relationship work. how to love and be loved, how to interact and coexist. then the positions come into play. if you do the other things right, then the positions become even more fun!

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. 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 C.E., probably during the great cultural flowering of the Gupta period.

Preceding history

For more details on this topic, see Kamashastra.

* The earliest and most comprehensive contributions to the Kama Shastra or "Discipline of Erotics" is traditionally 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 and later recorded his utterances for the benefit of mankind.[1] Yashodhara, in his commentary on the Kama Sutra, further attributes the origins of Kama Shastra to Mallanaga, the "prophet of the Asuras", meaning it originated in prehistoric times. The attribution of the name "Mallanaga" to Vatsyayana, the author of the Kama Sutra, is due to the confusion of his role as editor of the Kama Sutra with that of the mythical creator of ****** science.
* During the 8th century BC, Shvetaketu, son of Uddalaka, is said to have produced a comprehensive summary of Kama Shastra. However this "summary" was still too vast to be accessible. Later, 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, important contributions of Kama Shastra expounding on Babhravya group's work are attributed to great sages such as Charayana, Ghotakamukha, Gonardiya, Gonikaputra, Suvarnanabha, and Dattaka.

— Dattaka's work on courtesans is reproduced by Vatsyayana 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.

[edit] Time and background of Kama Sutra

Vatsyayana seems to have lived around the 4th century AD, at a time of cultural prosperity known as the Gupta period. The fact that Varahamihira in his Brihad Samhita (literally "Grand Opus", composed around the 6th century AD) claims to have drawn his inspirations from the Kama Sutra, and the Kama Sutra's mention of King Shatakarni Satavahana who lived in the 1st century BC gives the ranges for the possible production time of the Kama Sutra.

Vatsyayana claims the various major works of Kama Shastra had become difficult to access, which is why he undertook to collect and summarize them in Kama Sutra.

Answer 6

search more about it online or buy the book, they also have a bathtub kamsutra too

Answer 7

get the book and read it

Answer 8

its all about positions.....it just helps get a piece