Shishupala-vadha (Study)
by Shila Chakraborty | 2018 | 112,267 words
This page relates ‘Knowledge of Kamashastra (Sex and Erotics) in the Shishupalavadha’ of the study on the Shishupala-vadha (in English) in the light of Manusamhita (law and religious duties) and Arthashastra (science of politics and warfare). The Shishupalavadha is an epic poem (Mahakavya) written by Magha in the 7th century AD. It consists of 1800 Sanskrit verses spread over twenty chapters and narrates the details of the king of the Chedis.
Knowledge of Kāmaśāstra (Sex and Erotics) in the Śiśupālavadha
Poet Māgha was aware of sexology. He discussed about heroine and their different sexual stages. In the whole tenth canto different beheaviours of lascivious ladies have been sketched.
The poet called the god Madana as “Mīnaketana” in the thirty eighth verse of the thieteenth canto. (13/38)
“Manasisaya” in the second verse of the seventh canto (7/2).
Anaṅga in the thirty fourth verse of the tenth canto (10/24), and Kusumāyudha in the sixty seventh verse of the tenth canto.
“himamukkacandraruciraḥ sapadmako madayan dvijān janitamīnaketanaḥ |
abhavat prasāditasurā mahītsavaḥ pramadājanasya sa cirāya mādhavaḥ ||” 13.38 ||[1]“dadhati sumanasī vanāni vahvīryuvatiyutā yadavaḥ prayātumīṣuḥ |
manasiśayamahāstramanyathāmī na kusumapañcakamaṇyalaṃ visoḍhūm ||”7.2 ||[2]“kṣīvatāmupagatāsvanuvelaṃ tāsu roṣaparitoṣavatīṣu |
agrahīnnu saśaraṃ dhanurujphāmāsa nūjjhitaniṣaṅgamanaṅgaḥ ||” 10.34 ||[3]“urumūlacapale kṣaṇamaghnan yervataṃsakusumaiḥ priyametāḥ |
cakrire sapadi tāni yathārthaṃ manmathasya kusumāyudhanānāma ||”
Different beheavious of lasacious ladias were described according to vātsāyana by Māgha.
“varjayantyā janaiḥ saṅgame kāntatastarkayantyā sukhaṃsaṅgame kāntataḥ ||” 4.42 ||[4]
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
ibid., p. 529.
[2]:
ibid., p. 268.
[3]:
ibid., p. 403.
[4]:
ibid., p. 171.