Ratimanjari

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The Ratimanjari (flower wreath of love) was written in Sanskrit by Jayadeva in the 15th or 16th century AD .

The work

The Ratimanjari is a very short script with only 125 verses in the Kamashastra tradition of Indian love art . The work is a summary and interpretation of the Smaradipika and therefore both works are identical in content. In a compact way z. B. Describes the different types of women, sexual positions, and the ways in which a man can sexually seduce, arouse, enjoy and satisfy a woman.

expenditure

  • Alex Comfort: The Illustrated Koka Shastra: Erotic Indian Writings, Based on the Kama Sutra . Simon & Schuster, New York 1997, ISBN 0-684-83981-4 , pp. 44-49 (English).
  • Alex Comfort: Koka Shastra. The tantra of love . Ullstein Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-550-06975-8 .
  • Ramakanta Dvivedi: Ratimanjari . Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office (Sanskrit, Hindi, with commentary in Hindi).