The Ratirahasya—Kukkoka: Secrets of Love
Abstract The literary treatises on sexuality have existed in India for a long time and the most important work so far is Vatsyayana’s Kama Sutra. Kukkoka also contributed to this area, but much later in the twelfth century ce. His work had been translated by the Tamil king-poet Ativira Rama Pandian...
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Abstract The literary treatises on sexuality have existed in India for a long time and the most important work so far is Vatsyayana’s Kama Sutra. Kukkoka also contributed to this area, but much later in the twelfth century ce. His work had been translated by the Tamil king-poet Ativira Rama Pandian of the sixteenth century ce—some excerpts from which have been described in this article. |
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