Vatsyayana - The Kama Sutra / Kamasutra (8 translations)
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* Vatsyayana - The Kama Sutra / Kamasutra (8 translations)
The KAMA SUTRA (Kāma-sūtra; lit. "Principles of Love") is an ancient Indian Hindu Sanskrit text on sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment. Attributed to Vātsyāyana , and composed perhaps between the 3rd and 5th centuries CE, it is neither exclusively nor predominantly a sex manual on sex positions, but a sophisticated work that treats erotic life as one component of a balanced human existence, integrated with ethics, household management, social norms, and aesthetics. In the traditional Indian scheme of the puruṣārthas—the four aims of life (dharma, artha, kāma, and mokṣa)—the Kamasutra addresses kāma, or sensual fulfillment, but always in relation to the others. Thus, the text is as much about comportment, courtship, and the psychology of desire as it is about sexual positions, which in fact occupy a relatively small portion of its content.
The first influential English translation was produced by Sir Richard Burton and F. F. Arbuthnot in 1883. Although long celebrated for introducing the Kamasutra to Western readers, this version is now understood to be highly problematic. Burton’s Victorian-era sensibilities, Orientalist assumptions, and occasional embellishments led to distortions in tone and content. His translation mixes literal rendering with euphemism and exoticism, and it often imposes a moralizing or sensationalist frame foreign to the original Sanskrit.
A major corrective arrived in 1962 with the translation by Indologist S. C. Upadhyaya , who worked directly from authoritative Sanskrit manuscripts. Upadhyaya aimed for philological accuracy and scholarly clarity, stripping away Burton’s Victorian theatrics and grounding the work in its cultural and intellectual context. Though somewhat austere and more academic in tone, his translation restored the text’s structure, categories, and social assumptions. It thereby allowed readers to encounter the Kamasutra not as an exotic curiosity but as a considered treatise within the broader tradition of classical Sanskrit literature.
Perhaps the most widely respected modern translation is that of Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar (2002). Their edition combines Doniger’s philological expertise with Kakar’s insights as a psychoanalyst, achieving a translation that is both scholarly and accessible. It provides extensive notes, cross-cultural comparisons, and a keen sensitivity to the text’s original social environment, including its depictions of gender roles, courtesanship, and same-sex relations. Doniger and Kakar neither sanitize nor sensationalize; instead, they approach the Kamasutra as an earnest exploration of human desire within a specific historical framework.
Other noteworthy translations include those by Indra Sinha (1980), Alain Daniélou (1994), Lars Martin Fosse (2012), and A.N.D. Haksar (2012).
The following books are in ePUB and/or PDF format as noted:
* Complete Illustrated Kama Sutra [ed. Dane] (Inner Traditions, 2003) – ePUB / PDF
* Complete Kāma Sūtra [tr. Daniélou] (Park Street Press, 1994) – ePUB
* Kama Sutra [tr. Burton & Arbuthonot] (Modern Library, 2002) – ePUB
* Kama Sutra: A Guide to the Art of Pleasure [tr. Haksar] (Penguin, 2012) – ePUB
* Kama Sutra: The Hindu Art of Love [tr. Upadhyaya] (Watkins, 2004) – PDF
* Kamasutra [tr. Doniger & Kakar] (Oxford, 2003) – ePUB / PDF^
* Kamasutra [tr. Fosse] (YogaVidya, 2012) – ePUB / PDF
* Love Teachings of Kama Sutra [tr. Sinha] (Guild Publishing, 1988) – PDF
PDF^ courtesy of @pharmakate
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- Vatsyayana - Complete Illustrated Kama Sutra [ed. Dane] (Inner Traditions, 2003).epub (11.5 MB)
- Vatsyayana - Complete Illustrated Kama Sutra [ed. Dane] (Inner Traditions, 2003).pdf (42.1 MB)
- Vatsyayana - Complete Kāma Sūtra [tr. Daniélou] (Park Street Press, 1994).epub (968.4 KB)
- Vatsyayana - Kama Sutra [tr. Burton & Arbuthonot] (Modern Library, 2002).epub (523.1 KB)
- Vatsyayana - Kama Sutra_ A Guide to the Art of Pleasure [tr. Haksar] (Penguin, 2012).epub (521.9 KB)
- Vatsyayana - Kama Sutra_ The Hindu Art of Love [tr. Upadhyaya] (Watkins, 2004).pdf (11.2 MB)
- Vatsyayana - Kamasutra [tr. Doniger & Kakar] (Oxford, 2003).epub (16.6 MB)
- Vatsyayana - Kamasutra [tr. Doniger & Kakar] (Oxford, 2003).pdf (2.9 MB)
- Vatsyayana - Kamasutra [tr. Fosse] (YogaVidya, 2012).epub (52.6 MB)
- Vatsyayana - Kamasutra [tr. Fosse] (YogaVidya, 2012).pdf (28.9 MB)
- Vatsyayana - Love Teachings of Kama Sutra [tr. Sinha] (Guild Publishing, 1988).pdf (46.1 MB)
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