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| Land of Kam
Sutra |
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 signifies 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. |
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| Khajuraho |
| City |
Khajuraho |
| State |
Madhya Pradesh |
| Location |
Central India |
Year of Construction |
10th Century A.D. |
| Constructed By |
Chandela Kings |
| Type of Construction |
World Heritage |
| Famous |
Erotic Carvings |
| Website |
www.mptourism.com |
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The erotic carvings on the Khajuraho temple
complex in central India were created to prevent
the rain God Indra from accidentally striking
the Holy place with lightning. Situated in Central
India, Madhya Pradesh, in the state of Madhya
Pradesh, Khajuraho is a fascinating village
with a quaint rural ambience and a rich cultural
heritage. The fascinating temples of Khajuraho,
Khajuraho temples had been constructed between
950 and 1050 A.D. during the reign of Chandel
Empire. These temples are considered the "high
point" of Indian architectural genius in
the medieval period
Originally there were 85 temples, of which
only 22 still exist. The erotic carvings of
the temples give the place it's fame. Erotic
or not the level of detail is quite magnificent
as these pictures clearly do show. These temples
depict scenes from elephant fights, mythical
lions, gods, and erotic couples. In a frieze
that seemed to be an exception a sodomistic
scene was depicted where onlookers hold their
hands in front of their eyes in disgust. The
erotic scenes are sort of a 3-D rendering of
the Kama Sutra book, a graphical instruction
manual.
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