Essay name: Kamashastra and Classical Sanskrit literature (study)
Author:
Vishwanath K. Hampiholi
Affiliation: Karnatak University / Department of Sanskrit
This essay in English studies the influence of Kamashastra on classical Sanskrit literature by exploring the significance of Kama (sexual desire) within Indian philosophy and literature. It is highlighted tat ancient Indians valued both spiritual and worldly aspects of life. The treatise "Kamasutra" by Vatsyayana is highlighted as a pioneering erotic text, addressing sexual pleasure as an art form.
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pretext according to the tenets of V膩tsy膩yana.
107 The
photographic description of a newly married girl in her
108 first union makes us to recollect the sutras of Vatsya-
109 yana. Some verses seem to us as if they are composed
to illustrate the aphorisms of Love. S.K. De opines-
"Almost every poem in this collection has a charm of
its own. The verses have all the perfection of minia-
ture word pictures, of which Sanskrit is pre-eminently
capable. All of them treat love in its varied aspects,
often youthful and impassioned love in which the senses
and the spirit meet with all the emotions of longing,
hope, jealousy, anger, dis-appointment, despair, reconcilia-
tion and fruition. "110
This Sataka, by its remarkable
fineness of conception, richness of expression, delicacy
of thought and feeling of love, became a model for future
love-poets.
The Kuttanimata or SambhalImata, written by Damodara-
gupta, is a didactic poem and an amusing work on erotics
106. Supra IV Chapter, Fn. 123, p.273.
107. Supra IV Chapter, Fn.122, p.272.
108. Supra IV Chapter. Fn. 138, 140, p.277.
109. Supra IV Chapter, Fn. 127-131, p.274.
110. Ancient Indian Erotics and Erotic Literature,
p.32.
