Mallanaga Vatsyayana. Vatsyayana Kamasutra, translation by Wendy Donniger, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Widely known in the Western world as the Kamasutra, the Vatsyayana Kamasutra is the Hindu book of love, based upon Nandi the sacred bulls meditative insights into the divinity of husband and wife relationships.
Belonging to the ancient Kama Shastra collection of Hindu Sanskrit writings collated in the 2nd century C.E, the Vatsyayana Kamasutra contains 1250 verses, 36 chapters and is divided into 7 parts . Although believed to be much older, the Vatsyayana Kamasutra acts as a manual for those engaged in Hindu wisdom, philosophy and the principles of Kama and Bhakti (Hindu devotion to deities), and covers human sexuality within Hindu terms.
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| Shiva and Parvati |
It begins with Nandi, a bull employed by the Hindu deity Shiva as a door-guard, who when hearing the Lord Shiva making love to his wife and consort Parvati, receives countless spiritual lessons on the divinity of human sexuality when practiced according to the principles of Kama and tantric spiritual transcendentalism and devotional-ism (Bhakti). It is a book which teaches how intricate human morality, spirituality, carnal and pleasurable desires can be brought into alignment with deity and purified in a transcendental and holy state.
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| Lord Shiva and Nandi the sacred bull |
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