The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks — John Shaqi
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding RemarksVatsyayana
Philosophy
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Translated From the Sanscrit in Seven Parts With Preface, Introduction and Concluding Remarks
Vatsyayana
Love; Sex
(_a_) DIMENSIONS.
(_b_) FORCE OF DESIRE OR PASSION.
(_c_) TIME.
_Kinds of Union._
Man is divided into three classes, viz., the hare man, the bull man, and
the horse man, according to the size of his lingam.
Woman also, according to the depth of her yoni, is either a female deer,
a mare, or a female elephant.
There are thus three equal unions between persons of corresponding
dimensions, and there are six unequal unions, when the dimensions do not
correspond, or nine in all, as the following table shows:
+--------------------+--------------------+
| EQUAL. | UNEQUAL. |
+--------------------+--------------------+
| MEN. | WOMEN. | MEN. | WOMEN. |
+--------+-----------+--------|-----------+
| | | | |
| Hare. | Deer. | Hare. | Mare. |
| Bull. | Mare. | Hare. | Elephant. |
| Horse. | Elephant. | Bull. | Deer. |
| | | Bull. | Elephant. |
| | | Horse. | Deer. |
| | | Horse. | Mare. |
+--------+-----------+--------+-----------+
In these unequal unions, when the male exceeds the female in point of
size, his union with a woman who is immediately next to him in size is
called high union, and is of two kinds; while his union with the woman
most remote from him in size is called the highest union, and is of one
kind only. On the other hand when the female exceeds the male in point
of size, her union with a man immediately next to her in size is called
low union, and is of two kinds; while her union with a man most remote
from her in size is called the lowest union, and is of one kind only.
In other words, the horse and mare, the bull and deer, form the high
union, while the horse and deer form the highest union. On the female
side, the elephant and bull, the mare and hare, form low unions, while
the elephant and the hare make the lowest unions.
There are then, nine kinds of union according to dimensions. Amongst all
these, equal unions are the best, those of a superlative degree, _i.e._,
the highest and the lowest, are the worst, and the rest are middling,
and with them the high[33] are better than the low.
There are also nine kinds of union according to the force of passion or
carnal desire, as follows:
+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
| MEN. | WOMEN. | MEN. | WOMEN. |
+-----------+-----------+-----------|-----------+
| | | | |
| Small. | Small. | Small. | Middling. |
| Middling. | Middling. | Small. | Intense. |
| Intense. | Intense. | Middling. | Small. |
| | | Middling. | Intense. |
| | | Intense. | Small. |
| | | Intense. | Middling. |
+-----------+-----------+-----------+-----------+
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