Mallanaga Vatsyayana

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana Mallanaga Vatsyayana

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana is a famous ancient Indian text. It is considered to be the standard work on human sexual behavior in Sanskrit literature written by the Indian scholar Vatsyayana. A part of the work consists of practical advice on sex. K?ma means sensual or sexual pleasure, and s?tra are the guidelines of yoga, the word itself means thread in Sanskrit. The Kama Sutra is the oldest and most notable of a group of texts known generically as Kama Shastra. Traditionally, the first transmission of Kama Shastra or "Discipline of Kama" is attributed to Nandi the sacred bull, Shiva's doorkeeper, who was moved to sacred utterance by overhearing the lovemaking of the god and his wife Parvati and later recorded his utterances for the benefit of mankind.