(The ancient Indian Aphorisms on Love) It is difficult to fix the period of Vatsyayana and Kama Sutras. However he was definitely before the Mahabharata period because Lord Krishna me... Read more
If a man thickens the juice of the fruits of the cassia fistula, and the eugenia jambolana by mixing them with the powder of the soma plant, the vernonia anthelmintica, the eclipta prostata,... Read more
CHAPTER II OF THE WAYS OF EXCITING DESIRE, AND MISCELLANEOUS EXPERIMENTS, AND RECIPES IF a man is unable to satisfy a Hastini, or Elephant woman, he should have recourse to various means to... Read more
The application of a mixture of the leaf of the plant vatodbhranta, of the flowers thrown on a human corpse when carried out to be burnt, and the powder of the bones of the peacock, and of t... Read more
PART VII CHAPTER I ON PERSONAL ADORNMENT; ON SUBJUGATING THE HEARTS OF OTHERS; AND ON TONIC MEDICINES WHEN a person fails to obtain the object of his desires by any of the ways previously re... Read more
CHAPTER VI OF GAINS AND LOSSES; ATTENDANT GAINS AND LOSSES; AND DOUBTS; AS ALSO OF THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF COURTESANS IT sometimes happens that while gains are being sought for, or expected t... Read more
CHAPTER V OF DIFFERENT KINDS OF GAIN WHEN a courtesan is able to realize much money every day, by reason of many customers, she should not confine herself to a single lover; under such circu... Read more
CHAPTER IV ABOUT RE-UNION WITH A FORMER LOVER WHEN a courtesan abandons her present lover after all his wealth is exhausted, she may then consider about her reunion with a former lover. But... Read more
CHAPTER III OF THE MEANS OF GETTING MONEY, OF THE SIGNS OF THE CHANGE OF A LOVER’S FEELINGS, AND OF THE WAY TO GET RID OF HIM MONEY is got out of a lover in two ways: By natural or law... Read more
CHAPTER II OF LIVING LIKE A WIFE WHEN a courtesan is living as a wife with her lover, she should behave like a chaste woman, and do everything to his satisfaction. Her duty in this respect,... Read more