KAMASUTRA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kamasutra mean? 

• KAMASUTRA (noun)
  The noun KAMASUTRA has 1 sense:

1. (Hinduism) an ancient Sanskrit text giving rules for sensuous and sensual pleasure and love and marriage in accordance with Hindu law

  Familiarity information: KAMASUTRA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KAMASUTRA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Hinduism) an ancient Sanskrit text giving rules for sensuous and sensual pleasure and love and marriage in accordance with Hindu law

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Instance hypernyms:

Sanskrit literature (Hindu literature written in Sanskrit)

Domain category:

Hindooism; Hinduism (a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils)