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Kama Sutra (Censorship (Ready Reference series))

The Work

Mallanga Vatsyayana is credited with compiling the classic collection of Hindu aphorisms on love known as the Kama Sutra early in the first millennium c.e. Nothing is known about him beyond the fact that he was a student of ancient Hindu works, from which he adapted his own book. The texts of the Kama Sutra taught that human life should be directed toward three goals: dharma, or doing good works to gain religious merit; artha, acquiring wealth and fame; and kama, achieving pleasure. Sutra are aphorisms—brief instructive...

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