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The Ratiratnapradipika (English: Enlightenment of the Jewels of Love ) or Ratiratna Pradipika is a book written in Sanskrit by Praudha Deva Raya (briefly Emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire ) in the 15th century AD. Literally, "Rati" means (love through) copulation , "Ratna" means jewel, and "Pradipika" means enlightener .
The Oriental Research Institute in Mysuru has an old, complete copy of the work in Sanskrit.
Contents
[edit]The Ratiratnapradipika is a small text in the Kamashastra tradition of the Indian art of love . The work consists of 485 verses, is divided into seven chapters and builds on older Indian texts on eroticism such as the Kama Sutra and Ratirahasya.[1]
The chapters are
- Part – Love in the white and dark fortnight (waning and waxing lunar cycles, or Paksha)
- Part - Description of the categories (of men and women)
- Part – External Coitus
- part – Mating
- Part – Variations of Positions in Abhyantararata
- Part – Description of the Auparistaka
- Part – Treatment of the various love acts
This work categorizes people according to their physical, erotic and aphoristic characteristics and describes how a man should arouse a woman during the two phases of the moon. Men and women are characterized in relation to their sexual, physical characteristics and the compatibility or incompatibility of various combinations of men and women is described. The variations of sexual pleasure, the techniques and routines with which a woman or a man can be satisfied are presented in detail. There is an emphasis on the variations of oral sex, which receives a separate chapter. One chapter deals with 49 different sexual positions. Another aspect of the Ratiratnapradipika is the seduction of women, sexual variations depending on the woman's emotional ties or social background.
References
[edit]- ^ Prauḍhadevarāya; Sivapriyananda (2000). A South Indian treatise on the kamasastra: the Rati-ratna-pradipika of Praudha-Devaraja Maharaja. New Delhi: Abhinav Publications. ISBN 978-81-7017-388-5.