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Monday, October 25, 2010

Kama Sutra Latest Edition

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Latest edition of the Kama Sutra book will rise. More modern and attractive. With the new edition is expected to be a kind of lifestyle guide in mixing of love and relationship of "sex book porn".

The pictures are erotic and sexual illustrations that accompanied the various translations of ancient Hindu texts, which previously was missing from the Kama Sutra to be issued new British publisher Penguin, reports the Sunday Telegraph.

Conversely, the Kama Sutra would be a manual, containing only text and classy with a pocket size is presented as a "lifestyle guide for modern man and woman". "Until now the Kama Sutra is always presented as, '60 scandal, the influence of sex book porn," says Editorial Director of Penguin Books Alexis Kirschbaum.

"But it was originally written as advice to a man politely about how to live the life of the round, not just the passionate life," he said again.

Kama Sutra is believed to have been written in the third century by Vatsyayana. Previous English version of the Kama Sutra has been widely translated in the 19th century by the explorer and Orientalist Sir Richard Francis Burton, who often displays erotic illustrations to match the ancient language.

While this new edition, written by AND Haksar, an Indian scholar and translator of Sanskrit texts. The book will include the titles and chapters are updated. "Public Perceptions of the Kama Sutra is that it's just about sex, but each reading a book, honest show that it is about lifestyle and social relations among human beings," said Haksar.

"My efforts with the new translation has been as close as possible to the original text, but for right now in contemporary language that reflects contemporary issues in the book," he added. The new edition will be published Penguin in February next year.
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