A South Indian Treatise on the Kamasastra: THE RATI-RATNA-PRADIPIKA OF PRAUDHA-DEVARAJA MAHARAJA

The Rati-Ratna-Pradidipika, a minor text on erotica written in south india by a member of the wadiyar royal family, is translated and annotated here with scholarly apparatus and academis understanding of sexual machanics by a member of the wadiyar royal family 350 years later.

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Publisher	Abhinav Publications
ISBN	9788170173885
Publishing Date	11-Mar-2012
Language	English
Territorial Rights	Worldwide

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Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Influence of the Phases of the Moon on the Sexual Desire of Women according to the System of Gauniputra (Gauniputramate sukla-krsnapaksa-krida-adhikara)

Chapter 2 Description of Classes (Jati vivarana)

Chapter 3 Outer Play between the Hero (Nayaka) and his Heroine (Nayika)

Chapter 4 Inner Love (Abhyantara-rati)

Chapter 5 Postures of Inner Sex Play (Abhyantara-ratau karana-nirupana)

Chapter 6 Superior Coitus or 'Oral' Sex (Auparistaka)

Chapter 7 All Matters Connected with Sex (Sarva- surata-adhikara)

The Artist

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Swami Sivapriyananda » Click here to see author page

The author Swami Sivapriyananda was born in 1939 into a royal family of a princely state in Gujarat. He studied Sanskrit and Pali at graduate and post-graduate levels at Pune University. He also studied for the traditional 'kavyatirtha' of the Bengal Sanskrit Association, Calcutta. After this, he went to England for post-graduate study in Archaeology at the London University. He took sannyasa at Rishikesh in 1974 and since then has visited many ashramas, saints and centres of traditional learning in search of material on forgotten and neglected aspects of Indian religion and culture. At present he lives in Mysore (Karnataka), working on the philosophy and history of the Natha sects.

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