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Kāmaśāstra manuscript preview

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Kāmaśāstra

eap_10231035

The manuscript is a work on Kāmaśāstra dealing with the theory and practice of love, erotic relations, and conjugal compatibility. The text opens with an invocation to Ar...

Koṣasāra Kāmaśāstra manuscript preview

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Koṣasāra Kāmaśāstra

eap_67601021

This manuscript is a composite work primarily concerned with Kāmaśāstra, enriched with materials drawn from Vajīkaraṇa, physiognomy, Ayurveda, tantric ritual practices, a...

Ratikallolinī manuscript preview University of Copenhagen

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Ratikallolinī

112543_V051A_4225_CS

"A text on Kāmaśāstra composed in 1719 by Sāmarāja Dīkṣita also known as Dīkṣitasāmarāja. It describes different categories of women, and characteristics of kanyās and pu...

Smaradīpikā manuscript preview Bibliothèque nationale de France

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Smaradīpikā

ark:/12148/btv1b100831658

This contains a treatise on erotics. Its title and the name of the author, Mīnanātha, are given in both the introductory stanzas and in the completion statement at the en...