Comparative Literature and Culture 2125A/B Chapter : Kama Sutra Selections
22 Nov 2012
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C o n t e n ts of. Invocation: origin and development of erotic science, or kama shastra, summary of subjects dealt with in the kama sutra. 1 - 2 praised be the three aims of life, virtue [dharma], prosperity [artha], and love [kama], which are the subject of this work. It is in order to explain this that i have written this commentary. For brahmans and others, so long as they are heads of a family, the search for spiritual realization is not practicable, and the aims of life are limited to three. The advocates of eroticism consider that love, given its results, is the most important inasmuch as virtue and prosperity both depend on it and without it they would not exist. According to the most ancient scholars, the prophet of the asuras, mallanaga, created this science after studying its means of accomplishment. Treatises have been written on the ways to acquire.
