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RE-VISITING VATSYAYANA'S KAMA-SUTRA

RE-VISITING VATSYAYANA'S KAMA-SUTRA

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 THE SAGE DISCOVERED BEYOND HIS WORDS
 
A study of sage Vatsyayana’s great classic the Kama-sutra, the book discovers on one hand what Vatsyayana said, meant or wanted to say, that is, Vatsyayana in his words as also beyond, and on the other, what are the issues that concern the mind today for remedying which this mind approaches Vatsyayana and the Kama-sutra. After two thousand years of confrontation with ‘dharma-shashtra’ and its related ethical teachings the ‘kama-shashtra’ has now gathered around a mass of controversies though Vatsyayana had opted for ‘kama’ only as it was one of the three Purusharthas – goals of life, that enshrined several Hindu treatises and the entire Hindu tradition; the other being Artha and Dharma, the Artha that enshrined the Kautilya’s Arthashashtra, and the Dharma that enshrined the Manu’s Smriti, the epitome of Dharma-shashtra.
SKU: 9788180904134

  • PRODUCT INFO

    AUTHOR P.C. JAIN
    PUBLISHER BHARATIYA KALA PRAKASHAN
    LANGUAGE ENGLISH
    EDITION 2019
    ISBN 9788180904134
    PAGES 236
    COVER PAPERCOVER
    OTHER DETAILS 8.50 X 5.50 INCH
    WEIGHT 330 GM

  • AUTHOR INFO

    A versatile writer P C Jain has contributed to subjects like Hindi grammar, philately, Tantra, folk and tribal art, monuments, painting, textile, cultural history and subjects like Kama-shastra A clay modeller, painter, poet, embroiderer, weaver, and even a teacher finds in his writings something relevant. He chooses a medium from around him and it is his ability to use it that determines his artistic accomplishment and talent. Whichever the medium PC Jain has attempted in his writings the level of such accomplishment and therein lies his distinction.

  • INTRODUCTORY

    Unlike conventionalized reproductions of the Kama sutra: the same aphoristic style each verse unlinked with other, and a formal diction as used a Vedic teacher when discoursing with his disciples sitting around, the Re-visiting Kama-sutra attempt at discovering the text's essential spirit as also its inherent unity that transforms it into a compact thesis. While re-structuring the manifest body of the Vatsyayana's great classic the Re-visiting Kama sutra encounters with absolute honesty and straightway not only Vatsyayana's statement but also the man behind it. Re-visiting Kama-sutra also investigates the circumstances of Vatsyayana's life, his times, challenges, pressures, concessions and submissions as also his revolt, sometimes silent but often louder than the spoken words. Whatever the Re-visiting Kama-sutra contends emanates from behind Vatsyayana's own words, not thrust upon from sources outside it. The Re-visiting Kama-sutra addresses that essential mind, that is, today's reader, the Kama-sutra has been reproduced for. On one hand it decodes Vatsyayana's aphorism, and on the other, simplifies abstruseness of his ancient diction and makes thus an honest effort to discover in his ancient classic solution to a contemporary reader's needs-broadly this underlines the text's relevance today.

    Whatever Vatsyayana's pressures or compromises, his main objective in the Kama-sutra was to regain for kama its earlier prestige that as one of the three purusharthas-goals of life, kama once had.

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