कामशास्त्रkāmaśāstra

कामशास्त्र (kāmaśāstra) is a Sanskrit word meaning a treatise on pleasure or sexual love, the title of several erotic works, manual of love or pleasure, the science of love and erotics, a treatise on love, a treatise on erotics. Its 6 recorded definitions are grouped into 2 contexts, among them Kāmaśāstra as a Genre/Field of Study, Specific Kāmaśāstra Works or Applications.

Definitions: 6

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Meanings by context

Kāmaśāstra as a Genre/Field of Study

4 definitions

a treatise on pleasure or sexual love

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

the science of love and erotics

— Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary

manual of love or pleasure

— Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

a treatise on love

— Index to the Names in the Mahabharata

Specific Kāmaśāstra Works or Applications

2 definitions

the title of several erotic works

— Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)

a treatise on erotics

— The Purana Index

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Definitions on this page come from 5 works: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary, Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899), The Purana Index, Vaidya Sanskrit-English Dictionary. Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon.