Kama Sutra
The Love Teachings of Kama Sutra By Vatasyayana Source:
"The Love Teachings of Kama Sutra" (Translated
by Indra Sinha) Lying Down Positions: Lying-down Positions
- Samputa Group: Positions From The Medieval Texts: Sitting
Positions: Rear-Entry Positions: Standing Positions:
Oral Pleasures -- Fellatio Techniques: Oral Pleasures
-- Cunnilingus Techniques: Role Reversal: Love Potions
and Sex Aids To Enslave a Lover: To Increase Potency: To
Cope With Impotence: Lying Down Positions: Indrani draws
up both her knees until they nuzzle the curves of her breasts;
her feet find her lover's armpits. Small girls love
this posture, but becoming a goddess takes a lot of practice.
She cups and lifts her buttocks with her palms, spreads
wide her thighs, and digs in her heels besides her hips,
while you caress her breasts: this is "Utphallaka"
(The Flower in Bloom). Grasping the ankles of the round
hipped woman, whose buttocks are like two ripe gourds,
raise her beautiful thighs and spread the thigh-joints
widely. Full of desire, saying sweet words, approach her
with your body stiff as a pole and drive straight forward
to pierce her lotus and join your limbs: experts call it
"Madandhvaja" (The Flag of Cupid). Catch hold
of her two feet, raising them till they press upon her breasts
and her legs form a rough circle. Clasp her neck and make
love to her: this is "Ratisundara" (Aphrodite's
Delight). Lift the lady's feet until her soles lie
perfectly parallel, one to each side of her slender throat,
cup her breasts and enjoy her: this technique is "Uthkanta"
(Throat-high). Your lovely wife, lying on the bed, grasps
her own feet and draws them up until they reach her hair;
you catch her breasts and make love: this is "Vyomapada"
(Sky-foot). The round-thighed woman on the bed grasps
her ankles and raises high her lotus feet; you strike her
to the root, kissing and slapping open-palmed between
her breasts: this is "Markata" (The Monkey).
She lies flat on her back, you sit between her parted knees,
raise them, hook her feet over your thighs, catch hold of
her breasts, and enjoy her: this is "Manmathpriya"
(Dear to Cupid). Lying-down Positions - Samputa Group:
If your penis is too small for a woman, the "Samputa"
group of postures should be used: "Samputa"
(the Jewel Case), "Pidita" (the Squeeze),
"Veshtita (the Entwined) and "Vadavaka"
(the Mare's Trick). In Samputa your legs lie along
hers caressing their whole length from toes to thighs.
Your lover may be below you, or you may both lie on your sides,
in which case she should always be on your left. In Pidita
the lovers' thighs are interlaced and squeeze each
other in rhythm. In Veshtita she crosses her thighs or rolls
each one inward, thus greatly strengthening her yoni's
grip. When, like a mare cruelly gripping a stallion, your
lover traps and milks your penis with her vagina, it is "Vadavaka"
(the Mare's Trick), which can only be perfected with
long practice. When she uses it, a woman should cease to
kiss her lover and simply hold the lock. Courtesans are
adept at Vadavaka, and it's a speciality with ladies
from Andhra(*). *The South-Eastern state of India. Positions
From The Medieval Texts: When lovers, with legs stretched
rigid and feet caressing feet, make love according to their
hearts' desire, "tantra" scholars call
it "Sampada" (Equal Feet) and agree it is a way
to ecstasy. Stiff as a pole in the bed's center, she
lies making love, cooing and warbling like a woodpigeon,
the jewel of her clitoris well-polished: this is Mausala"
(the Pestle). When she lies on her back with her two thighs
pressed tightly together and you make love to her, keeping
your thighs outside hers, it is "Gramya" (the
Rustic). If, encircling and trapping her thighs with yours,
you grip so hard that she cries out in pain, it is "Ratipasha"
(Love's Noose), a device most charming to the ladies.
Her limbs, entwined in yours like tendrils of fragrant
jasmine creeper, draw taut and slowly relax in the gentle
rhythm of linga and yoni: this is "Lataveshta"
(the Clinging Creeper). She draws her limbs together,
clasping her knees tightly to her breasts, her yoni, like
an opening bud, offered up for pleasure: this is known as
"Mukula" (the Bud). When she draws up her knees
and you clamp yours about her raised thighs, trapping them
in a tight knot while riding saddle upon her buttocks and
kissing her, it is "Shankha" (the Couch). Sitting
Positions: Seated, mouth to mouth, arms against arms,
thighs against thighs: this is "Kaurma" The
Tortoise). If the lovers' thighs, still joined, are
raised, it is "Paravartita" (Turning). If
within the cave of her thighs you sit rotating your hips
like a black bee, it is "Markata" (The Monkey).
And if, in this pose, you turn away from her, it is "Marditaka"
(Crushing Spices). She sits with raised thighs, her feet
placed either side of your waist; "linga" (penis)
enters "yoni" (vagina); you rain hard blows
upon her body: this is "Kshudgaga" (Striking).
When your wife sits with both knees drawn tight to her body
and you mirror this posture, it is known to experts in the
art of love as "Yugmapada" (The Foot Yoke).
Seated erect, the lovely girl folds one leg to her body and
stretches the other along the bed, while you mirror her
actions: this is "Yugmapada" (The Feet Yoke).
If, with left leg extended, she encircles your waist with
her right leg, laying its ankle across her left thigh, and
you do the same, it is "Svastika" (The Swastika)*.
*An ancient good-luck talisman based on the symbolism
of a cross whirling sun-wise. The Nazis used it the wrong
way round, whirling widdershins, and the Indian pundits
always said this was sacrilegious and would doom them.
Sitting face to face in bed, her breasts pressed tight against
your chest, let each of you lock heels behind the other's
waist, and lean back clasping one another's wrists.
Now, set the swing gently in motion, your beloved, in pretended
fear, clinging to your body with her flawless limbs, cooing
and moaning with pleasure: this is "Dolita"
(The Swing). If, seated face to face, your toes caress the
lovely woman's nipples, her feet press your chest
and you make love holding each other's hands it is "Kaurma"
(The Tortoise). Seated, the lady raises one foot to point
vertically over her head and steadies it with her hands,
offering up her "yoni" for lovemaking: this
is "Mayura" (the Peacock). If, sitting facing
her, you grasp her ankles and fasten them like a chain behind
your neck, and she grips her toes as you make love, it is the
delightful "Padma" (the Lotus). Sitting erect,
grip your lover's waist and pull her on to you, your
loins continuously leaping together with a sound like
the flapping of elephants' ears: this is "Kirtibandha"
(the Knot of Fame). Kneeling between her thighs, tickle
her breasts and under her arms, call her 'my lovely
darling' and print deep nailmarks around her nipples:
thus "Jaya" (Victory) is expounded. Rear-Entry
Positions: She bends well forward and grips the bedstead,
her buttocks raised high; cup your hands to serpents'
hoods and squeeze her jar-shaped (sic) breasts together:
this is "Dhenuka" (the Milch Cow). If you mount
her like a dog, gripping her waist, and she twists round
to gaze into your face, experts in the art of love say it is
"Svanaka" (the Dog). If the lady, eager for
love, goes on all fours, humping her back like a doe, and
you enjoy her from behind, rutting as though you'd
lost all human nature, it is "Hirana" (the Deer).
When, with lotus-feet set well-apart on the ground, she
bends, placing a hand upon each thigh, and you take her from
the rear, it is "Gardabha" (the Ass). If she
lies on her stomach and you seize her ankles in one hand,
lift them high and make love, tilting her chin back with
your other hand, it is "Marjara" (the Cat).
She lies on her front, grasping her ankles in her own hands
and pulling them up behind her: this difficult posture
is known to experts as "Mallaka" (the Wrestler).
When your mistress lays breasts, arms and forehead to the
carpet, raising her buttocks high, and you guide your penis
into her yoni, it is "Aibha" (the Elephant).
You lift her ankles high; she draws up and extends her legs
as though she were crawling through the air: this is "Hastika"
(the Elephant). She stands on palms and feet; you stand
behind her and lift one of her feet to your shoulder, enjoying
the lovely girl: this is "Traivikrama" (the
Stride). Seize her feet and lift them high (like a wheel
barrow), drive your penis into her yoni and pleasure her
with vigorous strokes: this is "Kulisha" (the
Thunderbolt). You kneel, as in archery, take her on your
lap and bend her forward till her breasts are pressed to
her thighs: this is "Ekabandha" (One Knot).
Lying on her side, facing away, the fawn-eyed girl offers
you her buttocks and your penis penetrates the house of
love: this is "Nagabandha" (the Elephant).
Standing Positions: And now for the love postures with
which sculptors adorn our temple walls. When a couple make
love standing, or leaning against a wall or a pillar, it
is called "Sthita" (Steadied). When the woman
sits in her lover's cradled hands, her arms around
his neck, thighs gripping his waist, her feet pushing back
and forth against a wall, it is "Avalambitaka"
(Suspended). When, catching and crushing your lover in
the cage of your arms, you force her knees apart with yours
and sink slowly into her, it is "Dadhyayataka"
(Churning Curds). When she leans against a wall, planting
her feet as widely apart as possible, and you enter the cave
between her thighs, eager for lovemaking, it is "Sammukha"
(Face-to-face). If, as you lean against the wall, your
lady twines her thighs around yours, locks her feet to your
knees, and clasps your neck, making love very passionately,
it is "Dola" (the Swing). When your lover draws
up one leg, allowing the heel to nestle just behind your
knee, and you make love, embracing her forcefully, it is
"Traivikrama" (the Stride). If you catch one
of her knees firmly in your hand and stand making love with
her while her hands explore and caress your body, it is "Tripadam"
(the Tripod). If she raises one leg and you catch hold of
her little foot, caressing her breasts and telling her
how much you love her, it is "Ekapada" (One Foot).
Her foot pressed to your heart, your arms encircling and
supporting her, lean back against the wall and enjoy the
lovely girl: this is "Veshta" (the Encircling).
She stands against the wall, lotus-hands on hips, long,
lovely fingers reaching to her navel. Cup her foot in your
palm and let your free hand caress your angel's limbs.
Put your arm around her neck and enjoy her as she leans there
at her ease. Vatsyayana (the author) answer others who
knew the art of love in its great days called this posture
"Tala" (the Palm). If you lean back to a wall
and your lover, clinging to your neck, places both her feet
in your palms and thus makes love, this is "Dvitala"
(Two Palms). If you lift your lover by passing your elbows
under her knees and gripping her buttocks while she hangs
fearfully from your neck, it is "Janukurpara"
(the Knee Elbow). Your wife grips your neck and locks her
legs around your waist: this is "Kirti" (Fame)
- a posture not described in "Kama Sutra" or
"Ratirahasya". Never try it with heavy girls.
Oral Pleasures -- Fellatio Techniques: When your lover
catches your penis in her hand and, shaping her lips to an
'O', lays them lightly to its tip, moving her head
in tiny circles, this first step is called "Nimitta"
(Touching). Next, grasping its head in her hand, she clamps
her lips tightly about the shaft, first on one side then
the other, taking great care that her teeth don't hurt
you: this is "Parshvatoddashta" (Biting at
the Sides). Now she takes the head of your penis gently between
her lips, by turns pressing, kissing it tenderly and pulling
at its soft skin: this is "Bahiha-samdansha"
(the Outer Pincers). If next she allows the head to slide
completely into her mouth and presses the shaft firmly
between her lips, holding a moment before pulling away,
it is "Antaha-samdansha" (the Inner Pincers).
When, taking your penis in her hand and making her lips very
round, she presses fierce kisses along its whole length,
sucking as she would at your lower lip, it is called "Chumbitaka"
(Kissing). If, while kissing, she lets her tongue flick
all over your penis and then, pointing it, strikes repeatedly
at the sensitive glans-tip, it becomes "Parimrshtaka"
(Striking at the Tip). And now, fired by passion, she takes
your penis deep into her mouth, pulling upon it and sucking
as vigorously as though she were stripping clean a mango-stone:
this is "Amrachushita" (Sucking a Mango).
When she senses that your orgasm is imminent she swallows
up the whole penis, sucking and working upon it with lips
and tongue until you spend: this is "Sangara"
(Swallowed Whole). Oral Pleasures -- Cunnilingus Techniques:
With delicate fingertips, pinch the arched lips of her
house of love very very slowly together, and kiss them as
though you kissed her lower lip: this is "Adhara-sphuritam"
(the Quivering Kiss). Now spread, indeed cleave asunder,
that archway with your nose and let your tongue gently probe
her "yoni" (vagina), with your nose, lips and
chin slowly circling: it becomes "Jihva-bhramanaka"
(the Circling Tongue). Let your tongue rest for a moment
in the archway to the flower-bowed Lord's temple before
entering to worship vigorously, causing her seed to flow:
this is "Jihva-mardita" (the Tongue Massage).
Next, fasten your lips to hers and take deep kisses from
this lovely one, your beloved, nibbling at her and sucking
hard at her clitoris: this is called "Chushita"
(Sucked). Cup, lift her young buttocks, let your tongue-tip
probe her navel, slither down to rotate skilfully in the
archway of the love-god's dwelling and lap her love-water:
this is "Uchchushita" (Sucked Up). Stirring
the root of her thighs, which her own hands are gripping
and holding widely apart, your fluted tongue drinks at
her sacred spring: this is "Kshobhaka" (Stirring).
Place your darling on a couch, set her feet to your shoulders,
clasp her waist, suck hard and let your tongue stir her overflowing
love-temple: this is called "Bahuchushita"
(Sucked Hard). If the pair of you lie side by side, facing
opposite ways, and kiss each other's secret parts
using the fifteen techniques described above, it is known
as "Kakila" (the Crow). Role Reversal: During
lovemaking, ten types of blows may be struck with the penis,
but of these only "Upasripta" (Natural), which
is instinctive even to untutored cowherds, results in
full clitoral stimulation. It is a gentle forward stroke
which may be varied for depth and speed, allowing a subtlety,
rhythm and spontaneity which the other nine each lack to
some degree. If you grasp your penis and move it in circles
inside her yoni, it is "Manthana" (Churning).
When you strike sharply down into the yoni, it is "Hula"
(the Double-edged Knife). If, when her hips are raised
by a pillow, you strike a rising blow, it is "Avamardana"
(Rubbing). If you hold your penis pressed breathlessly
to her womb it is "Piditaka" (Pressing). If
you withdraw completely and then strike her violently
to the womb, it is "Nirghata" (the Buffet).
Continuous pressure on one side of her yoni is "Varahaghata"
(the Boar's Blow). If you thrust wildly in every direction,
like a bull tossing its horns, it is "Vrishaghata"
(the Bull's Blow). Quivering in her yoni is "Chatakavilasa"
(Sparrow Sport), which usually heralds orgasm. The involuntary
shuddering of orgasm is called "Samputa" (the
Jewel Case). But no two women make love quite the same way,
so orchestrate your rhythms to the moods and colors of each
lover's "raga" (emotions). If long lovemaking
exhausts you before your lover has reached her orgasm,
you should allow her to roll you over your back and sit astride
you, taking initiative. If the posture gives her deep pleasure,
or you enjoy its novelty, she may transpose into it as a matter
of course, taking great care, however, not to expel the
linga from the temple of love. Consider: she climbs upon
you, the flowers dropping from her tousled hair, her giggles
turning to gasps; every time she bends to kiss your lips
her nipples pierce your chest. As her hips begin to churn,
her head, flung back, bobs ever faster; she scratches,
pummels you with small fists, fastens her teeth in your
neck, doing unto you what you've often done unto her.
When she takes the man's role, your lady has the choice
of three famous lovemaking techniques: "Samdamsha
(the Tongs), "Bhramara" (the Bee) and "Prenkholita"
(the Swing). If she uses the Mare's Trick, gripping
your penis with her yoni's vice, squeezing and stroking
it, holding it inside her for a hundred heart-beats, it
is known as "Samdamsha" (the Tongs). If, drawing
up her feet, she revolves her hips so that your penis circles
deep within her yoni, you arching your body to help her,
it is "Bhramara" (the Bee). If she now swings
her hips in wide circles and makes figures-of-eight, swaying
upon your body as though she were riding on a seesaw, it is
"Prenkholita" (the Swing). When her passion
has ebbed, she should rest, bending forward to lay her forehead
upon yours without disturbing your yoked bodies: it won't
be long before desire stirs again. Catching your penis,
the lady with dark eyes like upturned lotus petals guides
it into her yoni, clings to you and shakes her buttocks:
this is "Charunarikshita" (Lovely Lady in
Control). Enthroned on your penis, she places both hands
on the bed and makes love, while you press your two hands
to her thudding heart: this is "Lilasana" (Seat
of Sport). She sits upright upon you, her head thrown back
like a rearing mare, bringing her feet together on the bed
to one side of your body: this is "Hansabandha"
(the Swan). The young woman has one foot on your heart and
the other on the bed. Bold, saucy women adore this posture,
which is known to the world as "Upavitika" (the
Sacred thread). If, with one of her feet clasped in your
hand and the second placed upon your shoulder, your young
lady enjoys you, it is "Viparitaka" (Reversed).
If your lover, seated above you with feet lotus-crossed
and her body held erect and still makes love to you, it is
known as "Yugmapada" (the Foot Yoke). If she
strides you, facing your feet, brings both her feet up to
your thighs, and works her hips frantically, it is known
as "Hansa-lila" (Swan Sport). Your lover places
one foot on your ankle, lodges her other foot just above
your knee, and rides you, swinging and rotating her hips:
this is "Garuda" (Garuda). If you lie flat on
your back with legs stretched out and your lover sits astride
you, facing away and grasping your feet, it is called "Virsha"
(the Bull). Clasping each other's hands, you lie sprawled
like two starfish making love, her breasts stabbing your
chest, her thighs stretched out along yours: this is "Devabandha"
(the Coitus of the Gods). Lying upon you, your beloved moves
round like a wheel, pressing hands one after the other on
the bed, kissing your body as she circles: experts call
this "Chakrabandha" (the Wheel). If, by means
of some contraption, your lover suspends herself above
you, places your linga in her yoni and pulleys herself up
and down upon it, it is "Utkalita" (the Orissan).
Love Potions and Sex Aids To Enslave a Lover: Anoint your
penis, before lovemaking, with honey into which you have
powdered black pepper, long pepper and "datura"
(the green thorn apple) - it will utterly devastate your
lady. Leaves caught as they fall from trees and powdered
with peacock-bone and fragments of a corpse's winding-sheet
will, when dusted lightly on the penis, bewitch any woman
living. If you crush milky chunks of cactus with sulphur
and realgar, dry the mixture seven times, powder it and
apply it to your penis, you'll satisfy the most demanding
lover. And if, to these powerful ingredients, you add a
monkey's turd, grind them together and sprinkle the
powder on your unsuspecting lover's head, she will
be your devoted slave for life. To Increase Potency: Honey-sweetened
milk in which the testicles of a ram or a goat have been simmered
has the effect, when drunk, of making a man as powerful as
a bull. Pumkin seeds ground with almonds and sugarcane
root, or with cowhage root and strips of bamboo, and stirred
into honeyed milk, have the same arousing effect. The sages
say that wheat-flour cakes baked with honey and sugar and
sprinkled with the powdered seeds of pumpkin and cowhage
give one strength for a thousand women. The yolk of a single
sparrow's egg stirred into rice pudding that has been
thickened with cream, wild-honey and "ghee"
(clarified butter) has the same invigorating effect.
To Cope With Impotence: A man who climaxes too swiftly should
arouse his lady by caressing her clitoris with his fingers
and flooding the well of her yoni before he enters her. If,
during lovemaking, the erection cannot be sustained because
the man is old, or simply exhausted he should use the delicate
oral techniques given in an earlier chapter. The man who
is utterly unable to achieve an erection should pleasure
his wife/lover with a phallus crafted from materials like
gold, silver, copper, iron (!!), ivory or horn. The artificial
phallus should be shaped to your natural proportions.
It will be more arousing for the lady if the outside is studded
with a profusion of large, smooth nodules.
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