Vatsyayana Mallanaga
Vatsyayana Mallanaga (around 250 AD) is the alleged Indian author of the Kamasutra , which was written in the scholarly language of the time, Sanskrit . Nothing else is known about the author's life.
Davadatte Shastri (1912–1982), who published a Hindi commentary on the Kama Sutra in 1964 , collected material on Vatsyayana Mallanaga's identity. It was not published as a result of his death.
literature
- Richard Schmidt (Ed.): The Kamasutram. The Indian Ars Amatoria. Along with the complete Commentare (Jayamangala) of Yasodhara . Translated from Sanskrit and edited. by Richard Schmidt. Wilhelm Friedrich, Leipzig 1900.
- Klaus Mylius (ed.): Das Ka-masu-tra . Translated from Sanskrit into German and edited. by Klaus Mylius. (= Reclams Universal Library; 9781). Reclam, Leipzig 1986 / Reclam, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-15-009781-9 (also published by the Gutenberg book guild, by dtv, by VMA and by Otus-Verlag)
- Sandhya Mulchandani, Sudhir Kakar: Kamasutra. The Indian doctrine of love. Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2008. ISBN 3-89910-415-3
- Lars Martin Fosse: The Kamasutra . YogaVidya.com, Woodstock NY, 2012. ISBN 978-0-9716466-8-1
Web links
- Literature by and about Vatsyayana Mallanaga in the catalog of the German National Library
- Kamasutra. German translation by Richard Schmidt 1922
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wendy Doniger and Sudhir Kakar (eds.): Kamasutra. Translation by Robin Cackett. Wagenbach, Berlin 2004, p. 48.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vatsyayana Mallanaga |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vātsyāyana Mallanaga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian author of the Kamasutra written in the learned language of Sanskrit |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 3rd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century or 4th century |