Haksar, a former Indian diplomat and a well-known translator of Sanskrit classics. ![]() ![]() This clear and elegant new translation is the work of A. In bookstores you will find inanities like “The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Supercharged Kama Sutra Illustrated” sooner than a faithful translation of the original manuscript, which contained no drawings whatsoever. The book resides in the popular imagination as kitsch, as if it were a series of aroused and arousing Pilates poses for two. “Genitals,” Malcolm Bradbury, the British novelist and academic, wrote, “are a great distraction to scholarship.” They’ve been a distraction, too, to our understanding of the Kama Sutra, the classic study of society and sexuality written in India nearly 2,000 years ago.
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