The Illustrated Kama Sutra : Ananga-Ranga and Perfumed Garden - The Classic Eastern Love Texts

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Type: Book
Studio: Park Street Press
Release Date: 1991-08-01
Sexual frankness without a hint of guilt or prurience is the great legacy which the Eastern, and in particular Indian, traditions have given us. As an expression of human culture, and as a pillow book for the modern boudoir, the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana the most famous work on sex ever written the Ananga-Ranga of Kalyana Malla, and Sheikh Nefzai's Perfumed Garden, set forth the principles of sensual pleasure with poetry, wisdom, and humor, celebrating love as an ecstatic expression of life's beauty.

Here, for the first time, Sir Richard Burton's translations of the classic Eastern love texts have been published in one volume.

The first Kama Sutra to be illustrated in color with a dazzling and unique collection of Indian painting and sculpture.

These erotic treatises are not sex manuals in the modern sense clinical collections of coital postures but a broader and more humane exploration of Eastern sexual customs.

Good Introduction
If you are interested in Kama Sutra, Ananga Ranga or The Perfumed Garden or are not sure which you would like to study, this book is a great starting point. Although all the works are very similiar, this allows you a synopsis of each text and is helpful in determing which or all that you wish to persue further. The illustrations are beautifully done. Not for in-depth reading or review, but more an icebreaker.

Uncovering the Indian thoughts on sex
If you are not an oriental person, you will be amazed to see the details. But, as a normal practice of Yoga in India for hundreds of years, illustrations are no more immaterializable. Sex also teches you Yoga and rithmatic breathing through different asanas. Find some from this book. Buy it for a new depth in your attitude towards sex.

Beautiful artwork, interesting positions, but impossible
Of course these positions aren't impossible for a human, but it would take a lifetime of stretching before the woman would be able to get into the positions described and depicted.

Don't buy this book if you are looking for a book filled with different sexual positions to try. If you are looking for a book that presents sexuality as a natural, healthy, fun part of life, this book contains the classics. The pages are filled with large, beautiful prints of paintings and pictures of sculptures showing people in seemingly every possible sexual position (though virtually all of them are impossible to anyone with joints and bones). The text of the three books is abridged, with only a very small fraction of the Kama Sutra reprinted in this book.

If you want a book that treats sexuality as the beautiful and natural part of life that it should still be, then consider buying this book. It has been around for centuries (the Kama Sutra for more than a millenium, if memory serves), and is well worth reading. But if you think you'll learn any practicable techniques, you'll be disappointed.

AN ENLIGHTENING EXPERIANCE.
I really enjoyed the superb graphics and very informative text. Whether you are celebate or sexually active, you must accept the fact that a very big part of the human experiance is sexual. The Kama Sutra can strip away the un-neccesary shame and guilt that the pragmatic western philosophies have instilled upon our culture. Sex is a perfectly natural and neccesaery form of communication and means of survival of the species. Mark A. Yenichek