Conjugal Love in India

Ratiśāstra and Ratiramaṇa. Text, Translation, and Notes

Kenneth Zysk (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

322 Seiten

2002
Brill (Verlag)
9789004125988 (ISBN)

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Conjugal Love in India is a study of traditional Hindu ideas about love in the domestic abode. The work includes the texts, translations, and notes of the two principal Sanskrit treatises on the subject, Ratiśāstra and Ratiramaôa, along with an introduction.

The purpose of Ratiśāstra was to provide instruction and advice to young Hindu couples before and after they cohabit as a couple. The desired outcome of lovemaking has always been, according to Hindu law and custom, the production of male issues. Conjugal love or “Ratiśāstra” is the means to assure that auspicious result.
Kenneth Zysk’s Conjugal Love in India is a study of traditional Hindu ideas about love in the domestic abode, and deals with the two principal Sanskrit treatises on the subject, Ratiśāstra and Ratiramaṇa. These two works, leaving no stone unturned, cover every aspect of conjugal life, from the finding and selection of a suitable pair to procreation. With an introduction that situates the doctrine of conjugal love (ratiśāstra) and the texts that explain it in the history of brahminic scholasticism.
This work will help to elucidate aspects of Indian history and culture in the medieval and modern periods, and will provide a good basis for comparative studies with similar themes in other cultures.

Kenneth G. Zysk, Ph.D., Australian National University, and Dphil, University of Oslo, is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Indology at Copenhagen University. He has been Senior Fulbright Fellow to India, and a Wellcome Fellow in the History of Medicine in London, and has served as Director of Dharam Hinduja Center’s Indic Traditions of Healthcare project at Columbia University and taught at New York University. He has published two books and numerous articles on the themes pertaining to the history and practice of Indian medicine and Āyurveda, both inside and outside of India, is co-editor of a series on Traditional Indian Medicine, and is managing editor of the Critical Pali Dictionary.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.10.2002
Reihe/Serie	Sir Henry Wellcome Asian Series ; 1
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Gewicht	716 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Hinduismus
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-13	9789004125988 / 9789004125988
Zustand	Neuware