Rati rahasya of Pandit Kokkoka

 Book Name-"Rati rahasya of Pandit Kokkoka"

Author Name-  S.C.Upadhyaya


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Pages-224

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Book Type-English

Publication date-1965 

 MFOREWORD Dr. S. C. Upadhyaya and his work on the Indian art and science of love need no introduction. He brought out for the same publishers, some time back, a translation of Vatsyāyana's Kamasutras, with an introductory study of the subject and a large number of illustrations, particularly from Indian sculpture. The present publication of his on the Ratirahasya is, in the nature of things, shorter and it is his desire, and that of his publishers, that I should introduce it. I gladly do so.
The ancient Indian mind had a flair for the free pursuit of any branch of knowledge. It suffered from no prudery in evincing keen interest in matters of sex, in frank expression when dealing with it or in academic investigations of its character and manifestations. In the Rgveda, every aspect of it, virtuous and otherwise, finds mention. In the Atharvaveda, charms and herbs to be used in love-affairs are to be met with often. The Upanishads describe the sexual act as a sacrificial act (Putra-mantha) (Chandogya V.3,8: and Bhadaranyaka VI. 2: 4.3-4, 12), with the details of the metaphor fully worked out and in this connection mention the Pancala country and Aruneya Svetaketu both of which names are later attested as closely connected with the development of the Kama Sastra. In the same context in the latter mentioned Upanishad, prayogas for achieving certain ends in respect of sex are also set forth. Of the two epics, the Mahabharata, which calls itself a Kama Sastra as much as a Sastra of the other three Purushärthas, contains some remarkable material, particularly in the discourses of Bhishma in the Anukasanaparvan, of which one topic which is very striking must be mentioned. In Chapter 34 of the Anusasana (Kumbhakonam edn.) the question is boldly raised : in the sexual act, who gets the better or greater happiness, the male or the female? The story is told of Indra and King Bhangåsvana, and of the latter changing his sex and becoming a woman, enjoying and begetting children and in the end, refusing to change over to manhood as he or she?) declares that the sexual joy of a woman is superior. Earlier, in the Vanaparvan (ch. 234, Kumbhakonam edn.), we have a glimpse of the Aupanishadika section, of use of drugs for enticing,.....




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