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Date Posted: 06:08:59 04/30/06 Sun
Author: cc
Subject: Okay, no googling, but wikied!
In reply to: cc 's message, "Why did we all think it was ancient buddhist texts??" on 06:06:29 04/30/06 Sun

Kamasutram, generally known to the Western world as Kama Sutra, is an ancient Indian text on human sexual behavior, widely considered to be the standard work on love in Sanskrit literature. The text was composed by Vatsyayana, as a brief summary of various earlier works belonging to a tradition known generically as Kama Shastra, the science of love. Kama is literally desire. Sutra signfies a thread, or discourse threaded on a series of aphorisms. Sutra was a standard term for a technical text, thus also the Yogasutram of Patanjali. The text is originally known as Vatsyayana Kamasutram ("Vatsyayana's Aphorisms on Love"). Tradition holds that the author was a celibate scholar. He is believed to have lived sometime between the 1st to 6th centuries AD, probably during the great cultural flowering of the Gupta period.

We were right baout the "ancient text" part...:P

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Exactly what I was going to say! -- Em, 17:38:43 04/30/06 Sun
- Maybe because all the other Buddhism texts have Sutra's in their name.... -- Si, 21:48:15 04/30/06 Sun
  - too many sutra's? -- Cars, 03:43:50 05/01/06 Mon
    - Yeah that's the impression I got too -- Em, 18:46:11 05/01/06 Mon
      - hehehe -- Shazzy, 23:44:33 05/01/06 Mon
        what do you mean shock -- Cars, 05:18:27 05/02/06 Tue
        Ah! -- Em, 17:27:59 05/02/06 Tue
        Finally someone sympathesizes with me!! -- Si, 19:04:34 05/02/06 Tue
        lies! -- Cars, 21:19:41 05/02/06 Tue
        yeah...you should check out the statue in front of Tower Building UTS... -- cc, 06:58:24 05/03/06 Wed
        i've never noticed the statue before, but then I don't go the tower that much~ (NT) -- Si, 06:24:27 05/05/06 Fri
        hahaha...will have to take you to take it out one day...lolz! (NT) -- cc, 00:12:10 05/06/06 Sat

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