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The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

PREFACE
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6) was composed by the poet Kullianmull, for the amusement of Ladkhan, the son of Ahmed Lodi, the same Ladkhan being in some places spoken of as Ladana Mull, and in others as Ladanaballa.
He is supposed to have been a relation or connection of the house of Lodi, which reigned in Hindostan from A.D.

1450-1526.

The work would, therefore, have been written in the fifteenth or sixteenth century.

It contains ten chapters, and has been translated into English, but only six copies were printed for private circulation.

This is supposed to be the latest of the Sanscrit works on the subject, and the ideas in it were evidently taken from previous writings of the same nature.
The contents of these works are in themselves a literary curiosity.
There are to be found both in Sanscrit poetry and in the Sanscrit drama a certain amount of poetical sentiment and romance, which have, in every country and in every language, thrown an immortal halo round the subject.


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