On Personal Adornment, Subjugating the Hearts of Others, and of Tonic MedicinesĬhapter II.
Part VII: On The Means of Attracting Others to One's Self Chapter I. Of Gains and Losses, Attendant Gains and Losses, and Doubts and Lastly, the Different Kinds of Courtesans About a Reunion with a Former LoverĬhapter VI.
Of the Means of getting Money.Ĭhapter IV. Of a Courtesan Living With a Man as His WifeĬhapter III. Of the Causes of a Courtesan Resorting to Men.Ĭhapter II. Part VI: About Courtesans Introductory RemarksĬhapter I. About the Women of the Royal Harem, and of the Keeping of One's Own Wife On the Love of Persons in Authority with the Wives of Other PeopleĬhapter VI. Examination of the State of a Woman's MindĬhapter V. About Making Acquaintance with the Woman, and of the Efforts to Gain Her OverĬhapter III. On the Characteristics of Men And Women.Ĭhapter II. Part V: About the Wives of Other People Chapter I. On the Conduct of the Eldest Wife Towards the Other Wives of her Husband, and of the Younger Wife Towards the Elder Ones. On the Manner of Living of a Virtuous Woman, and of Her Behaviour During the Absence of Her HusbandĬhapter II. Also What is to be Done by a Girl to Gain Over a Man and Subject Him to HerĬhapter V. On Things to be Done Only by the Man, and the Acquisition of the Girl Thereby. Courtship, and the Manifestation of the Feelings by Outward Signs and DeedsĬhapter IV. About Creating Confidence In the GirlĬhapter III. Observations on Betrothal and MarriageĬhaper II. Part III: About the Acquisition of a Wife Chapter I. Different Kinds of Congress, and Love Quarrels
How to Begin and How to End the Congress. On Holding the Lingam in the MouthĬhapter X. About Females Acting the Part of MalesĬhapter IX. On the Various Ways of Striking, and of The Sounds Appropriate to ThemĬhapter VIII. On the Various Ways of Lying Down, and the Different Kinds of CongressĬhapter VII. On Biting, and the Ways of Love to be Employed with Regard to Women of Different CountriesĬhapter VI. On Pressing or Marking with the NailsĬhapter V. Kinds of Union According to Dimensions, Force of Desire, and Time and on the Different Kinds of LoveĬhapter IV. About Classes of Women Fit and Unfit for Congress with the Citizen, and of Friends, and Messengers On the Arrangements of a House, and Household Furniture and About the Daily Life of a Citizen, His Companions, Amusements, Etc.Ĭhapter V. On the Study of the Sixty-Four ArtsĬhapter IV.
Observations on the Three Worldly Attainments of Virtue, Wealth, and LoveĬhapter III. It also documents the sociology of sex in India eighteen centuries ago.Ĭhapter II. This is one of the first systematic studies of human sexual behavior With the assistance of a student, Shivaram Pashuram Bhide. The bulk of the translation was performed by an Indian archaeologist,īhagvanlal Indraji and civil servant Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, He did provide footnotes and the introduction.
Translation, he was not the author of the translation, although It was written by Mallanaga Vatsyayana in the 2nd century CE.Īlthough Burton published this, the most widely known English The Kama Sutra is an ancient Indian text which is considered the primary The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Sir Richard Burton, translator (1883)