THE DHARMA OF KĀMA: Kāmasūtra’s Morality of Integrated Puruṣārtha
Sexuality has been one of the biggest human preoccupations, hence the usage of several sexual analogies to understand the world around us. For instance, ancient cults believed rain to be the seminal seed of the heavens, and the Earth’s seasonal cycles were compared with menstruation in women.1 Sexua...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Dharmaram College
2013
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Journal of Dharma
Year: 2013, Volume: 38, Issue: 1, Pages: 23-38 |
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Morality
B Purushartha B Dharma B Kama B Kamasuthra |
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| Summary: | Sexuality has been one of the biggest human preoccupations, hence the usage of several sexual analogies to understand the world around us. For instance, ancient cults believed rain to be the seminal seed of the heavens, and the Earth’s seasonal cycles were compared with menstruation in women.1 Sexuality has commanded a significant share in the human discourse of every century, either in the eagerness to explore it, or through fervent attempts to define it, or in the struggles to suppress or sublimate it. If the beginnings of literature in the West saw sexuality embellished in erotic themes of Homer, Hesiod and Ovid, the ancients of the East were no less enthusiastic in their amorous dispositions. |
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| ISSN: | 0253-7222 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Dharma
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