rasa-lila (love dance) 48–9, 59, 244
Rasa-Pancadhyayi 48
rasas (taste, flavour, emotion) 36–7, 48
Rashid Pasha, Mohammed 77
Ratirahasya 51–3, 114, 195–6
Rau, Santha Rama 191
The Recognition of Shakuntala (play) 11, 42–3, 73
Rehatsek, Edward 92, 122, 138, 144
relativism 82–3, 157–8, 164
Richards, Alfred Bate 106–7, 142
Rig Veda 3, 19
Robson and Kerslake (publishers) 148–50
Romano, Giuliano 220
Roth, ‘Broadway’ Samuel 186, 188, 189
Royal Anthropological Society 151
Royal Asiatic Society 112, 122, 127, 181, 183
Royal Asiatic Translation Fund 122, 183
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 137, 170–1, 232–3
Sacred Books of the East 144–5
sadism
and Burton 86–7, 89, 108–9, 157
and Kamasutra 156–7
and Milnes 85–7, 88–9
Sanskrit
editions of Kamasutra 181–3, 199
literature 10, 35–44, 55–8, 100–1, 126, 199
sciences 52, 55
spelling and pronunciation 237
and Western scholarship 61–2, 72–3, 110–18, 122, 128, 144, 183, 202
kama shastras 55–7, 61, 72, 100–2, 114–15, 118, 150, 158
Sayaji Rao III, Maharaja of Baroda 126
scent see perfume
The Scented Garden of the Sheik Nefzaoui 172–4
Schmidt, Richard 183–4, 189, 199, 203, 233
scratching 39, 48, 156, 191, 217
sculpture, erotic 45–7, 49, 58, 202, 223–4, 228
The Secrets of Women 219
seduction 27, 39
sensuality
and asceticism 4–6, 194, 197–9, 231
and pleasure 22, 44, 54, 158, 160–3, 165–6, 234
and theatre 36–42
sex
aftermath 33
anal 208, 209–10
ignorance of 81, 158–62, 165
as life-goal 23–4, 28–9, 44–5
oral 14, 15, 167, 200, 208–10, 216
and pleasure 23, 44, 54, 158, 160–3, 165–7, 186
and politics 88, 186, 226
and procreation 22–3, 25, 147, 198, 200
sacramental 18, 45
and Tantrism 40, 44–7, 49, 191, 197, 214
as theatre 38–40
sexuality, and spirituality xiv, 130, 214–15
Shankara, and Amarusataka 43–4
shastras (learned teaching) 21, 24, 29, 31, 241
kama shastras 11–15, 52–7, 60–1, 72, 92, 100, 118–20, 167, 198
Shastri, Devadatta 205, 208–9, 228
Shatakarni Shatavahana 7
Shiva 4–5, 17, 45, 55, 72, 130, 203, 237
Shiva Purana 4
shivalingams see lingams
shlokas (verses) 29–30
Siegel, Lee 127, 227, 243, 244, 252
silpa-kalas (feminine accomplishments) 16, 52–3
slapping 30
Smithers, Leonard 87, 132–3, 171–2, 189
Smoot, Reed 188
Society for the Suppression of Vice 140–1
Sohrabji, Dosabhai 66
Sonntag, Linda 222
Speke, John Hanning 76, 78–80, 93, 120
Spellman, John W. 191
spirituality, and sexuality xiv, 130, 214–15
sringara (rasa of the erotic) 37
Stisted, Georgiana 70
Stoker, Bram 78, 106, 108
Stopes, Marie, Married Love 185, 188
striking 157
Subandhu, Vasavadatta 7–8
Sudraka, The Little Clay Cart 10, 41
sutra form 20, 30, 53–4
Suvarnanabha 19, 216
Svetaketu Auddalaki 17–18, 21
Swinburne, Algernon Charles
and Burton 68, 79, 89, 110, 184
and Milnes 85, 87–9
Symonds, John Addington 184
Tagore, Rabindranath 201, 203
Tantrism
and magic 50–1, 206
and sex 44–7, 49, 191, 197, 214, 243–4
Tariff Act (US) 188
techniques, erotic 14, 16, 39, 169, 215, 221–2
temples, and erotic sculptures 45–7, 49, 58, 202, 223–4, 228, 244
theatre 36–8, 42–3, 182, 242
decoration 58
sex as 38–40
trivarga (triple path) 23–4, 27–8, 52, 231
Upadhyaya, S.C. 201–2, 223–4
USA, and publication of Kamasutra 186–91, 195
vaginas 51, 56, 129–30, 139–40
see also yoni
Van de Velde, Theodor 220–1
Vanita, Ruth 233
Varma, Pavan K. and Mulchandani, Sandhya 228
Vatsyayana (Mallanaga) xviii, 1, 6–7, 11, 119, 131
and preservation of erotic tradition 19–22
and shlokas 29–30
and trivarga 23–4, 27–9
Vetalapancavimsati 90–1
Virabhadradeva, King 57
virility 30, 47
Walker, Kenneth 192
Weckerle, Jospeh, Golden Book of Love 220
Werba, Chlodwig 22–3, 233
Wilkins, Sir Charles 73, 110
Wilson, Horace Hayman 74–5, 110, 113, 115
Windsor, Edward 188
Winternitz, Maurice 182–3
wives, duties 103
women
and adultery 26
and Kamasutra xiii, 15, 26, 169, 185, 215–18, 226, 233
Oriental 145
and sexual ignorance 158–62, 228
and sexual pleasure xiii, 26, 160–3, 167–9, 185, 215–18, 226
social and sexual lives 15
types 51, 56–7, 166
Woolsey, Judge 188
Wright, Helena 221
Wright, Thomas 93, 121, 173, 215
Wylde, Lt.-Gen. William 109
Yasodhara (commentator), Jayamangala 7–8, 53–5, 118, 122–3, 181, 205, 208
yoga 5, 44, 51, 206
and postures 60, 196, 206, 223
yoni 46, 51, 95, 129–30, 139–40
About the Author
JAMES MCCONNACHIE is a journalist, travel writer, and broadcaster. A graduate of the University of Oxford, he has lived and traveled widely in Nepal and India. Hia articles and book reviews have appeared in The Telegraph, The Observer, and The Independent, among other publications. He lives in Winchester, UK.
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