The sources of The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

1. Vatsyayana 6 authority · 1 neutral 7 citations · 20 passages

   part i 2 passages anchored here · part iii 2 passages anchored here · part iv 2 passages anchored here · part v 4 passages anchored here · chapter iv · chapter v 7 passages anchored here · chapter ii 2 passages anchored here

   The Kama Sutra is cited as the authoritative treatise on Kama throughout the window.

   When one of the two lovers is grateful, and the other liberal, some Sages say that the liberal one should be preferred, but Vatsyayana is of opinion that the former should be chosen, because liberal men are generally haughty, plain spoken, and wanting in consideration towards others.

Each stands at a single passage. The chapter carries the anchors.

part i 8 sources

Babhravya school's doctrine on women enjoyed by five men · Charayana's teaching on citizen routine and friendship · Ghotakamukha's doctrine on Nayikas · Gonardiya's doctrine on Nayikas · Gonikaputra's doctrine on Nayikas · Lokayata doctrine (materialist rejection of religious ordinances) · Shruti (Holy Writ) · Suvarnanabha's doctrine on Nayikas

part ii 11 sources

Account of the name 'Sixty-four' via eight subjects of eight kinds each · Classification of eight kinds of embrace and ways of lying down · Classification of four further kinds of kisses · Classifications of member-embraces, nail-placement rule, lying positions, and view on custom vs. nature · Doctrine of the four kinds of love · Doctrine that women do not emit semen during coition · Doctrine that women's semen falls continually during coition · Kama Shastra (the 'Sixty-four') · Religious law prohibiting congress in water · Rig Veda (Dashatapa portion) · Traditional teachings on nail-mark variety and terminology

chapter vii 1 source

Verse on royal customs toward other men's wives

chapter viii 1 source

Suvarnanabha's teaching (Kama Shastra tradition)

chapter xi 4 sources

Holy Writ / Shastras (law on Auparishtaka) · Religious law on ritual purity · Teaching of the Acharyas on Auparishtaka · Works on medicine

chapter x 4 sources

Dattaka's teaching on courtship conduct · Kama Shastra · The Acharyas' praise of the sixty-four parts · The sixty-four means of love

part iii 6 sources

Ghotakamukha's maxims on marriage and courtship · Holy Writ (precepts governing marriage) · Opinion of the followers of Babhravya on silence in courtship · Opinions of ancient/old authors on marriage customs · The story of Sakuntala · Traditional summary verses (slokas) on marriage and courtship

part iv 3 sources

Holy Writ · Teaching of the followers of Babhravya · Teachings of Gonardiya

part v 12 sources

Auddalaka's teaching that a go-between is useless without prior signs of affection · Gonikaputra's teaching on love and go-betweens · Opinions of the followers of Babhravya on go-betweens and meeting occasions · Story of Ahalya and Indra · Story of Sakoontala and Dushyanti · Teachings of the Ancient Authors on judging women by bodily signs and on courtship method · The sixty-four sorts of enjoyments attributed to Babhravya · Verse on desire tempered by wisdom · methods of invisibility · teaching on selecting harem sentinels · teaching on testing a wife's chastity through a companion · traditional teachings on sentinels, courtesans' motives, and money

part vi 2 sources

the sixty-four kinds of pleasure · treatise on courtesans, written for the women of Pataliputra

chapter iv 1 source

Traditional teaching of the Acharyas on courtesans' conduct

chapter vi 2 sources

Babhravya's classification of gains and losses on both sides · Uddalika's classification of gains and losses on both sides

chapter i 3 sources

Atharvana Veda · The Vedas · Unnamed treatise of the ancient authors on aphrodisiac recipes

chapter ii 4 sources

Anunga Runga (Ananga-Ranga, 'The Stage of Love') · The Perfumed Garden · Vedas of the Christians (Bible) · works of Babhravya and other ancient authors