Kama Sutra

The Kama Sutra (the 'science of love') is one of the world s greatest books. Written between the 1st and 4th centuries AD, it is a magnificent treatise on sexual conduct and erotic technique. Its purpose is not simply to provide a menu for the sensual epicure or a training programme for the sexual athlete, but to comment on the situations in which men and women encounter, and to deal with them in such a way as to achieve personal fulfilment through ecstasy. This edition contains the classic translation by Sir Richard Burton, first published in 1883.

Chaturvedi Badrinath who hwas done the introduction is a civil servant by profession. Lecturing and writting on Indian Philosophy is his passion and he has extensively lectured in Europe. He carried out several worthy assignments. In march 1999,he was invited to talk at Weimar on the Indian view of Nature and Man in relationship to Goethe's own views on the subject.