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For Kama Sutra as the most notable of the kma stra
" ". literature see: Flood (1996), p. 65.
( ) For the Kama Sutra as a compilation, and dating to
. second century CE, see: Keay, pp. 81, 103.
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book, see index pages by Wendy Doniger, also translation
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by Burton

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(exceptions) . For the Dharma stras as discussing the four main goals
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. . p. 78.
, For dharma, artha, and kama as brahmanic householder
. [12] values see: Flood (1996), p. 17.
For denition of the term - (purua-artha) as any
. of the four principal objects of human life, i.e. , -
, , , and " see: Apte, p. 626, middle column,

compound #1.
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For kma as one of the four goals of life (kmrtha) see:

Flood (1996), p. 65.

For denition of kma as erotic and aesthetic pleasure

see: Flood (1996), p. 17.

Quotation from the translation by Richard Burton taken
from . Text accessed 3 April 2007.
1883 .[13]
Book I, Chapter ii, Lines 2-4 Vatsyayana Kamasutram
, 1980
1990
Electronic Sanskrit edition: Titus Texts, University
. of Frankfurt blye vidygrahadn artn, kma ca
yauvane, stvire darma moka ca
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Avari (2007), p. 171.

[14] Sinha, p. 33.


Apte, Vaman Shivram (1965). The Practical
Sanskrit Dictionary. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass
Publishers. ISBN 81-208-0567-4. (fourth revised
& enlarged edition).

Avari, Burjor (2007). India: The Ancient Past.

London: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-35616-9.

Danilou, Alain (1993), The Complete Kama Sutra:

The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the
Classic Indian Text, Inner Traditions, ISBN 0-
89281-525-6.
Sudhir Kakar and Doniger, Wendy (2003),
Kamasutra (Oxford Worlds Classics), Oxford
University Press, ISBN 0-19-283982-9.

Flood, Gavin (1996). An Introduction to Hinduism.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-
521-43878-0.
Flood, Gavin (Editor) (2003). The Blackwell
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Original and translations

Sir Richard Burtons English translation of Kama

Sutra, pdf version (Portable Document File)

The Kama Sutra in the original Sanskrit provided

by the TITUS project

The Kama Sutra in a German translation by Richard

Schmitt 1922

Vatsyayana Kamasutra - Chapterwise Translation in

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