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Kamasutra

Kamasutra is the alternative spelling of Kama Sutra.

Meaning of Kama Sutra

Proper noun

the Kama Sutra

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

Questions about Kamasutra

What is Kamasutra the alternative spelling of?
Kamasutra is the alternative spelling of Kama Sutra.

Words near Kamasutra in the dictionary

  1. kamas
  2. Kamasin
  3. Kamasins
  4. Kamassian
  5. Kamassin
  6. Kamasutra
  7. Kamat
  8. Kamata
  9. Kamatapur
  10. Kamath
  11. Kamaths

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kamasutra (page history and authors); Kama Sutra (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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