A man who is greedy for fields, land, gold, cattle, horses, servants, employees, women, relatives, many sensual pleasures, is overpowered with weakness and trampled by trouble, for pain invades him as water, a cracked boat.

Support Velivada Educate, Agitate, Organize Velivada Primary Navigation Pariah Street Home About Velivada Contact Velivada Submit Article Velivada Give Away Timeline Savitribai Phule Caste System Dr.

Ambedkar Articles Books Lectures Movies Original Photos Speeches Quotes Bahujan Icons Phule Couple Books Timeline Savitribai Phule Kanshi Ram Books Speeches Periyar Books Quotes of Periyar History Dalit History Dalit History Month Dalit Bahujan Ideals Inspirational Society Casteism Dalit Dalit Women Fekulogy Politics Religion Videos Opinion Book Reviews Business Campus India World Donate.

The classic the Hindus is banned in India by the Hindu fundamentalists.

Instead of arguing against her cogent and thorough analysis and reading of Hindu scriptures, the Hindu fundamentalists pelted eggs on her in the USA.

Her quest is not just academic, but she writes with a strong sense of justice and with a purpose to undo the historically wrong stereotyping.

That is why she calls her magnum opus, The Hindus, an alternate history written from the point of view of the marginalized Dalits and exploited women in the Hindu social order.

Her writing is a great challenge to the Hindu Brahmins because her analysis of Hindu scriptures is based on the direct reading of Sanskrit language.

Her philosophical training enables her to see the scriptures from the various points of views.

The four goals according to Hindu Brahminical texts are kama, artha, dharma and moksha.

The texts written on them are Dharmashastra, Arthashastra, and Kamasutra corresponding with religion, moneypower, and desirepassionsex respectively.

The most famous among the Dharmashastra is Manu Smriti, which is nothing but the text that supports the caste system and details out punishments according to the caste positions.

Arthashastra is written by Kautilya, which is a mean political text on how the king should rule by hook or by crook.

According to Doniger, the three texts are compiled with cross references to each other and therefore there is inter-texuality between them and they impinge upon each other.

She discusses important issues like politics of sexes and sex in politics.

The Mares Trap is an important book by the engaged philosopher and scholar.

A must read for people who are fighting the Hindu fundamentalism that is now being unleashed on Indias citizen.

Now, contrast the Brahminical Kama Sutra with the Buddhist Kama Sutta found in the Sutta Nipata, in Khuddaka Nikaya in the Pali Tipitaka.

It is one of the oldest texts in Buddhism written in archaic and old Pali language.

The linguists can analyze both the texts to ascertain antiquity of the two extant texts.

Irrespective of their historicity, they offer two different views and almost contradict each other.

Here we go: Kama Sutta Sensual Pleasure as translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu If one, longing for sensual pleasure, achieves it, yes, hes enraptured at heart.

But if for that person longing, desiring the pleasures diminish, hes shattered, as if shot with an arrow.

Kamasutra Tamil Book Pdf Free Download