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Zysk, Kenneth G., Conjugal Love in India. Ratiśāstra and Ratiramaṇa. Text, Translation and Notes. [Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Studies, Volume I]. Leiden: Brill, 2002, pp. XIV, 319. ISBN 90-04-12598-1.

Zysk, Kenneth G., Conjugal Love in India. Ratiśāstra and Ratiramaṇa. Text, Translation and Notes.... 362 BOOK REVIEWS bezeichnet werden, daQ auch die Bearbeitung der Handschriften der Senior Collection Salomon und seinem Team ubertragen wurde. Seminar fur Indologie und Tibetologie THOMAS OBERLIES Waldweg 26 37073 Go¨ttingen Deutschland Zysk, Kenneth G., Conjugal Love in India. Ratisastra and Ratira- mana. Text, Translation and Notes. [Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Studies, Volume I]. Leiden: Brill, 2002, pp. XIV, 319. ISBN 90-04- 12598-1. According to the Brahmanical scholastic tradition, three types of love are distinguished in Sanskrit literature: erotic, emotional, and conjugal. Erotic love (kama  ) denotes the sensual pleasures chiefly of men as detailed in the sex manuals of Kamasastra. Emotional love (srng _ ara  ) belongs to the eight or nine mental states (bhava  ) of the protagonist described in the dramaturgical and poetological treatises of Natyasastra and Alamkarasastra as evoking similar sentiments : : (rasa) in the audience or readership. Conjugal love (rati) is a com- bination of the previous two as occurring between man and woman in a legitimate relationship and delineated in the marriage hand- books of Ratisastra. As an authoritative system of knowledge, Ratisastra was not established until the beginning of the 17th century when isolated information essential to conjugal http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Indo-Iranian Journal Brill

Zysk, Kenneth G., Conjugal Love in India. Ratiśāstra and Ratiramaṇa. Text, Translation and Notes. [Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Studies, Volume I]. Leiden: Brill, 2002, pp. XIV, 319. ISBN 90-04-12598-1.

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Indo-Iranian Journal , Volume 47 (3-4): 5 – Sep 5, 2004
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362 BOOK REVIEWS bezeichnet werden, daQ auch die Bearbeitung der Handschriften der Senior Collection Salomon und seinem Team ubertragen wurde. Seminar fur Indologie und Tibetologie THOMAS OBERLIES Waldweg 26 37073 Go¨ttingen Deutschland Zysk, Kenneth G., Conjugal Love in India. Ratisastra and Ratira- mana. Text, Translation and Notes. [Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Studies, Volume I]. Leiden: Brill, 2002, pp. XIV, 319. ISBN 90-04- 12598-1. According to the Brahmanical scholastic tradition, three types of love are distinguished in Sanskrit literature: erotic, emotional, and conjugal. Erotic love (kama  ) denotes the sensual pleasures chiefly of men as detailed in the sex manuals of Kamasastra. Emotional love (srng _ ara  ) belongs to the eight or nine mental states (bhava  ) of the protagonist described in the dramaturgical and poetological treatises of Natyasastra and Alamkarasastra as evoking similar sentiments : : (rasa) in the audience or readership. Conjugal love (rati) is a com- bination of the previous two as occurring between man and woman in a legitimate relationship and delineated in the marriage hand- books of Ratisastra. As an authoritative system of knowledge, Ratisastra was not established until the beginning of the 17th century when isolated information essential to conjugal

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