| Titel: | Padmasri's Nagarasarvasva and the World of Medieval Kamasastra |
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| Autor: | Ali, D. |
| Mediengruppe: | journal article |
| Herausgeber: | --- |
| Zeitschrift: | Journal of Indian Philosophy |
| Jahr: | 2011 |
| Band: | 39 |
| Heft: | 1 |
| Seiten: | 41-62 |
| Sprache: | English |
| Abstract: | This essay focuses on a neglected and important text, the NAgarasarvasva of PadmaA > rA <<, as an index to the changing contours of kAmaA > Astra in the early second millennium (1000-1500) CE. Focusing on a number of themes which linked PadmaA > rA <<'s work with contemporary treatises, the essay argues that kAmaA > Astra incorporated several new conceptions of the body and related para-technologies as well as elements of material and aesthetic culture which had become prominent in the cosmopolitan, courtly milieu. Rather than seeing this development as an attenuation of the earlier science as constituted by VAtsyAyana's KAmasA << tra, it is possible to see that kAmaA > Astra actually developed closer relations with fields of knowledge that had long developed alongside it. |