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The Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana


The Kama Sutra of Vatsayayana

Sir Richard Burton, translator (1883)


Formatted at sacred-texts.com, July 2003. This text is in the public domain. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose provided this notice of attribution is left intact.


* Part I: Introductory

* Chapter I. Preface

* Chapter II. Observations on the Three Worldly Attainments of Virtue, Wealth, and Love

* Chapter III. On the Study of the Sixty-Four Arts

* Chapter IV. On the Arrangements of a House, and Household Furniture; and About the Daily Life of a Citizen, His Companions, Amusements, Etc.

* Chapter V. About Classes of Women Fit and Unfit for Congress with the Citizen, and of Friends, and Messengers


* Part II: On Sexual Union

* Chapter I. Kinds of Union According to Dimensions, Force of Desire, and Time; and on the Different Kinds of Love

* Chapter II. Of the Embrace

* Chapter III. On Kissing

* Chapter IV. On Pressing or Marking with the Nails

* Chapter V. On Biting, and the Ways of Love to be Employed with Regard to Women of Different Countries

* Chapter VI. On the Various Ways of Lying Down, and the Different Kinds of Congress

* Chapter VII. On the Various Ways of Striking, and of The Sounds Appropriate to Them

* Chapter VIII. About Females Acting the Part of Males

* Chapter IX. On Holding the Lingam in the Mouth

* Chapter X. How to Begin and How to End the Congress. Different Kinds of Congress, and Love Quarrels


* Part III: About the Acquisition of a Wife

* Chapter I. Observations on Betrothal and Marriage

* Chapt

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