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    Vātsyāyana was an ancient Indian philosopher, known for authoring the Kama Sutra. He lived in India during the second or third century CE, probably in...
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    text on sexuality, eroticism and emotional fulfillment. Attributed to Vātsyāyana, the Kamasutra is neither exclusively nor predominantly a sex manual on...
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  • Pakṣilasvāmin Vātsyāyana was an Indian philosopher, commentator and logician of the Nyaya School. He is the author of the Commentary, "Nyāya", the first...
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    Klostermaier, 4th-century CE Hindu scholar Vātsyāyana explained dharma by contrasting it with adharma. Vātsyāyana suggested that dharma is not merely in one's...
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    2004. Bullough & Bullough 2014, p. 516. Flood 1996, p. 17. Vatsyayana 1994, p. 42. Vatsyayana 1994, pp. 42-43. Numrich 2009, p. 68. Numrich 2009, p. 69...
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  • 252–255 See: "The Hindu Kama Shastra Society" (1925), The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, University of Toronto Archives, pp. 8; A. Sharma (1982), The Puruṣārthas:...
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    longing, emotional connection, love, appreciation, pleasure, and enjoyment. Vatsyayana, the author of the Kamasutra, describes kama as happiness that is a manasa...
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  • manual, and partially a burlesque on the art of love. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, believed to have been written in the 1st to 6th centuries, has a notorious...
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  • this subject is the Kama Sutra ascribed to Vātsyāyana who is often erroneously called "Mallanaga Vātsyāyana". Yashodhara, in his commentary on the Kama...
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  • Joseph Stalin Wendi McLendon-Covey as Russian Peasant Kumail Nanjiani as Vātsyāyana Sarayu Rao as Publisher Parvesh Cheena as Publisher Josh Gad as William...
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    See Pausanias III, 23:1, II, 5:1, III, 15:10. Kamasutra by Mallanaga Vatsyayana, translated by Wendy Doniger, Oxford University Press 2003, ISBN 978-0-19-283982-4...
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    period produced scholars such as Kalidasa, Aryabhata, Varahamihira and Vatsyayana, who made great advancements in many academic fields. Science and political...
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  • is the journey of a poignant love amidst deceit and combat. Based on Vatsyayana's ancient Sanskrit literature, the movie narrates the tale of the forbidden...
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    watermarks to conceal information. In India, the 2000-year-old Kamasutra of Vātsyāyana speaks of two different kinds of ciphers called Kautiliyam and Mulavediya...
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  • discussion of the three aims of ancient Hindu life—dharma, artha and kama—Vatsyayana's purpose is to set kama, or enjoyment of the senses, in context. Thus...
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    1163/2468-483x_smuo_com_003831. The Hindu Kama Shastra Society (1925). The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. University of Toronto Archives. pp. 8–11, 172. Yadav R (24 March 2018)...
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    of India), who use their mouths as a substitute for female genitalia. Vātsyāyana, the author of the Kama Sutra, states that it is also practiced by "unchaste...
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  • Mlecchita Vikalpa is one of the 64 arts listed in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra, translated into English as "the art of understanding writing in cypher, and the...
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    scholars such as Kalidasa, Aryabhata, Varahamihira, Vishnu Sharma, and Vatsyayana. The Gupta period marked a watershed of Indian culture: the Guptas performed...
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  • Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan (7 March 1911 – 4 April 1987), popularly known by his pen name Agyeya (also transliterated Ajneya, meaning 'the unknowable')...
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    (courtesan) of the Hellenistic period (3rd–1st century BC). The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, believed to have been written in the 1st to 6th centuries, has a notorious...
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    polyalphabetic cipher is self-reciprocal. Purple cipher RC4 ROT13 XOR cipher Vatsyayana cipher The majority of all modern ciphers can be classified as either...
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  • other authors including, among others Nandikeshvara, Gonikaputra, and Vatsyayana. Arabic, Persian and Turkish translations of the book are entitled Lazzat...
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  • Purushartha, pp 443; The Hindu Kama Shastra Society (1925), The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, University of Toronto Archives, pp. 8 See: Gavin Flood (1996), The meaning...
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    arts. It was home to many astronomers and scholars including Aryabhata, Vātsyāyana and Chanakya. During the Maurya period (around 300 BCE) its population...
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    art of sexual love, is probably produced around this time by the sage Vatsyayana. Micheon becomes ruler of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo. The elephant...
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  • Perhaps, conjectures Krishna, artha is just a subset of kama and karma. Vatsyayana in Kama Sutra defines artha as the acquisition of arts, land, cattle,...
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    main cast; also executive producer 2023 History of the World, Part II Vātsyāyana Episode: "I" The Eric Andre Show Himself Episode: "Anti-Weed" 2024 Krapopolis...
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    thousand years, beginning with Gautama about 550 BCE and ending with Vatsyayana about 400 CE. Nyaya provides insight into Indian rhetoric. Nyaya presents...
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    sculptures in the temple are known for sensual themes, which were inspired by Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra. Sandstones are mainly used in the construction of temples...
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