Ananga Ranga (The Hindu Art of Love)

The Ananga Ranga '(Stage of Love or Stage of the Bodiless One)' is an ancient Indian Sanskrit text written by Kalyana malla in the 15th or 16th century. We tried to describe the objective of the manuscript is not to encourage chambering and wantonness, but simply and in all sincerity to prevent the separation of husband and wife. Men, it is true, marry for the sake of undisturbed congress, as well as for love and comfort, and often they obtain handsome and attractive wives. But they do not give them plenary contentment, nor do they themselves thoroughly enjoy their charms. The reason of which is, that they are purely ignorant of the Kama Shastra; and despising the difference between the several kinds of women, they regard them only in an animal point of view