by Mallanaga Vātsyāyana · Editions du Rocher / Le Grand Livre du Mois · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782286039363
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«Kâma sûtra le bréviaire de l'amour» is Vâtsyâyana's treatise on eroticism, published in French by Editions du Rocher in paperback (607 pages).
Far from a simple manual of positions, the Kâma Sûtra studies love, sexuality and pleasure as part of an urban, refined ideal of life. Vâtsyâyana examines topics such as marriage, courtesy and seduction in the context of ancient India, where eroticism was a knowledge linked to culture and education.
French translation by Alain Daniélou, published in 1992. Includes the Jayamangala commentary by Yashodhara and extracts from the Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri.
A scholarly edition for those seeking the Kâma Sûtra as a philosophical and historical text, not just as an erotic manual.
Alain Daniélou was a French historian, Indologist, intellectual, musicologist, translator, writer and convert to and scholar of the Shaivite branch of Hinduism.
