kamasutraとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Kamasutra

語源

From Sanskrit कामसूत्र (kā́ma-sūtra).

固有名詞

the Kama Sutra

1. A Sanskrit treatise (sutra) setting forth rules for sensuous and sensual pleasure, love, and marriage in accordance with Hindu law.
   • 2018, Scott Christianson, Colin Salter, 100 Books that Changed the World, Batsford Books, →ISBN:

     Little is known about the Kama Sutra’s author, Vatsyayana, who claimed to be a celibate monk who had compiled all of the accumulated sexual knowledge from several previous authors as a form of his own meditation and contemplation of the deity.