Vâtsyâyana citations (27 citations)

Source: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanskrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks http://books.google.com/books?id=-ElAAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA18, Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883, P. 17

“A man practicing Dharma, Artha and Kama enjoys happiness both in this world and in the world to come.”

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Source: Kama Sutra, p. 16

“After reading and considering the works of Babhravya and other ancient authors, and thinking over the meaning of the rules given by them, this treatise [Kama Sutra] was composed, according to the precepts of the Holy Writ, for the benefit of the world,… while leading the life of a religious student at Benares, and wholly engaged in the contemplation of the Deity. This work is not to be used merely as an instrument for satisfying our desires…”

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Source: Richard F. Burton The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana http://books.google.com/books?id=p7dW_kmUX_wC&pg=PA12, WingSpan Press, 1 February 2009, p. 12

“In short, nothing tends to increase love so much as the effects of marking with the nails, and biting.”

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Source: Kama Sutra, p. 45

“The man who is ingenious and wise, who is accompanied by a friend, and who knows the intentions of others, as also the proper time and place for doing everything, can gain over, very easily, even a woman who is very hard to be obtained.”

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Source: Kama Sutra, p. 30

“A man practicing Dharma, Artha and Kama enjoys happiness both in this world and in the world to come. The good perform these actions in which there is no fear as to what is to result from them in the next world, and in which there is no danger to their welfare. Any action which conduces to the practice of Dharma, Artha and Kama together, or of any two, or even one of them should be performed. But an action which conduces to the practice of one of them at the expense of the remaining two should not be performed.”

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Source: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks http://books.google.com/books?id=SbEZWRTwsToC&pg=PT27, Library of Alexandria, p. 27

“Women are hardly ever known in their true light, though they may love men, or become indifferent towards them, may give them delight, or abandon them, or may extract from them all the wealth that they possess.”

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Source: Kama Sutra, p. 118

“The whole subject of embracing is of such a nature that men who ask questions about it, or who hear about it, or who talk about it, acquire thereby a desire for enjoyment. Even those embraces that are not mentioned in the Kama Shastra should be practised at the time of sexual enjoyment, if they are in any way conducive to the increase of love or passion. The rules of the Shastra apply so long as the passion of man is middling, but when the wheel of love is once set in motion, there is then no Shastra and no order.”

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Source: Kama Sutra , translated by Richard Francis Burton Chapter 2. Of the Embrace https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra/Part_II/Chapter_2, Wikisource

“…variety is necessary in love, so love is to be produced by means of variety.”

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Source: Kama Sutra, p. 45

“When all three viz., Dharma, Artha, and Kama together, the former is better than the one which follows it, i. e., Dharma is better than Artha, and Artha is better than Kama. But Artha should be always practiced by the king, for the livelihood of men is to be obtained from it only. Again, Kama being the occupation of public women, they should prefer to the other two, and these are exceptions to the general rule.”

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Source: "The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanskrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks", p. 18

“A person acquainted with the true principles of this science, who preserves his Dharma (virtue or religious merit), his Artha (worldly wealth) and his Kama (pleasure or sensual gratification), and who has regard to the customs of the people, is sure to obtain the mastery over his senses. In short, an intelligent and knowing person attending to Dharma and Artha and also to Kama, without becoming the slave of his passions, will obtain success in everything that he may do.”

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Source: The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanscrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks http://books.google.com/books?id=-ElAAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA9, Kama Shastra Society of London and Benares, 1883, p.9

“Kama is also learnt from the Kama Sutra (aphorisms on love) and from the practice of [[citizens.”

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Source: "The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated from the Sanskrit. In seven parts, with preface, introduction, and concluding remarks", p. 18

“His travel with his father helped him to gather information about the sexual mores of different people of different parts of India and neighboring countries.”

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Source: Literary Vision, p. 165

“It is easy to remember the three-fold formula of success in a sexual union: size, time and temperament. Vatsayana has given his candid opinion about licking the vulva and sucking the penis. Licking the vulva is not forbidden by the acharyas or texts, if it is custom of the country…There are many countries where mouth congress is enjoyed.”

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Source: Literary Vision, p. 165

“He suggests that mates should practice a variety of sexual postures in order to prevent mechanicality and predictability and to enhance the pleasure. He also points out the erotozones of a woman’s body and how different erotozones are awakened at different times according to the lunar influence.”

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Source: Literary Vision, p. 164

“No details of Vatsayana is known except the fact that he bore the surname Mallanaga… He was a law giver like Manu or Kauitilya and was anxious to reconcile Dharma, Artha and Kama the three recognized ends of life by emphasizing their equal importance and harmonious blending, and hence it was not possible for him to reduce his work to gross sexual level as did his successors or imitators in the subsequent erotic writing.”

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Source: Literary Vision, p. 152

“Sage of Sexology: A Historical Picture Kama which happens to be one of the four purusarthas of Hindu life has been systematically studied by the well-known sexologist Vatsayana. Kama Sutra has been published, read and enjoyed all over the world for its critical course on erotics.”

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Source: Literary Vision, p. 152

“It is indeed strange that Indian critics should react to this novel so puritanically, forgetting the fact that a masterpiece of erotics i. e. Kama Sutra was produced by Vatsayana in the ancient days in India. Like all semi or fully pornographic novels, The Company of Women is widely sold, secret and publicly condemned.”

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Source: Literary Vision, p. 127

“The sex fantasies man has, the animal postures, the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - all that is part of that consciousness which is transmitted from generation to generation.”

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Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti in: The Mystique of Enlightenment: Conversations with U.G. Krishnamurti http://books.google.com/books?id=Y6efkbAiXKoC&pg=PA125, Smriti Books, 2005, p. 125

“The work being written in parts by different authors was almost unobtainable and, as the parts which were expounded by Dattaka and the others treated only of the particular branches of the subject to which each part related, and moreover as the original work of Babhravya was difficult to be mastered on account of its length, Vatsyayana, therefore, composed his work in a small volume as an abstract of the whole of the works of the above various authors.”

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Source: Kama Sutra , translated by Richard Francis Burton Preface https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Kama_Sutra/Introductory/Preface, Wikisource