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In the beginning, Lord Brahma created the structure of a man and woman, which has
been described in one hundred thousand chapters, for regulating their existence with regard to Dharma, Artha, and Kama.
Nandi wrote the Kamasutra in one thousand chapters which was reconstructed by Shvetaketu, the son of Uddvalaka, into five hundred chapters, and this work was again reconstructed, into one hundred and fifty
chapters by an inhabitant of Panchala, Babhravya.
These one hundred and fifty chapters were bifurcated into seven heads or parts
namely:
1st. Sadharana (general topics).
2nd. Samprayogika (embraces, etc.).
3rd. Kanya Samprayuktaka (union of males and females).
4th. Bharyadhikarika (regarding one's own wife).
5th. Paradarika (regarding the wives of other people).
6th. Vaisika (regarding courtesans).
7th. Aupamishadika (on the arts of seduction, tonic medicines, etc.)
At the request of the women of Pataliputra (Patna), Duttaka wrote the sixth part of the last
work in detail. In the same pattern Charayana explained the first part of it. The remaining parts, viz., the second, third, fourth, fifth, and seventh were each separately expounded by:
- Suvarnanabha (second part).
- Ghotakamukha (third part).
- Gonikaputra (fifth part).
- Kuchumara (seventh part), respectively.
The work was almost unobtainable as the different authors wrote them in
varied parts. Vatsyayana composed this work in a small volume as an abstract of the whole of the works of the above-named authors.
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