Part
7 - Chapter 3
CONCLUDING
REMARKS
THUS ends, in seven parts, the Kama Sutra of
Vatsyayana, which might otherwise be called
a treatise on men and women, their mutual
relationship, and connection with each
other.
It is a work that should be studied by all,
both old and young; the former will find in
it real truths, gathered by experience, and
already tested by themselves, while the
latter will derive the great advantage of
learning things, which some perhaps may
otherwise never learn at all, or which they
may only learn when it is too late (`too
late' those immortal words of Mirabeau) to
profit by the learning.
It
can also be fairly commended to the student
of social science and of humanity, and above
all to the student of those early ideas,
which have gradually filtered down through
the sands of time, and which seem to prove
that the human nature of today is much the
same as the human nature of the long ago.
It
has been said of Balzac the great, if not
the greatest of French novelists, that he
seemed to have inherited a natural and
intuitive perception of the feelings of men
and women, and has described them with an
analysis worthy of a man of science. The
author of the present work must also have
had a considerable knowledge of the
humanities. Many of his remarks are so full
of simplicity and truth, that they have
stood the test of time, and stand out still
as clear and true as when they were first
written, some eighteen hundred years ago.
As a collection of facts, told in plain and
simple language, it must be remembered that
in those early days there was apparently no
idea of embellishing the work, either with a
literary style, a flow of language, or a
quantity of superfluous padding. The author
tells the world what he knows in very
concise language, without any attempt to
produce an interesting story. From his facts
how many novels could be written! Indeed
much of the matter contained in Parts III,
IV, V and VI has formed the basis of many of
the stories and the tales of past centuries.
There will be found in Part VII some curious
recipes. Many of them appear to be as
primitive as the book itself, but in later
works of the same nature these recipes and
prescriptions appear to have increased, both
as regards quality and quantity. In the
Anunga Runga or `The Stage of Love',
mentioned at page 85 of the Preface, there
are found no less than thirty-three
different subjects for which one hundred and
thirty recipes and prescriptions are given.
As the details may be interesting, these
subjects are described as follows:
*
For hastening the paroxysm of the woman
* For delaying the orgasm of the man
* Aphrodisiacs
* For thickening and enlarging the lingam,
rendering it sound and strong, hard and
lusty
* For narrowing and contracting the yoni
* For perfuming the yoni
* For removing and destroying the hair of
the body
* For removing the sudden stopping of the
monthly ailment
* For abating the immoderate appearance of
the monthly ailment
* For purifying the womb For causing
pregnancy
* For preventing miscarriage and other
accidents
* For ensuring easy labour and ready
deliverance
* For limiting the number of children
* For thickening and beautifying the hair
* For obtaining a good black colour to it
* For whitening and bleaching it
* For renewing it
* For clearing the skin of the face from
eruptions that break out and leave black
spots upon it
* For removing the black colour of the
epidermis
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Swami Veet Chintan T'Zorba-Krsna
Jyotish
Shastracharya
& Vedic Astrologer of India
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