Kamasutra

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  GLOSSARY AND INDEX

  abhimana see erotic arousal

  Abhira an ancient region and a king in Gujarat and Maharashtra xi, 49, 60, 124, 128

  Adam’s apple, nandyavarta Tabernaemontana coronaria 94

  Ahalya wife of Gautama, seduced by the god Indra xxix, 12, 116–17, 179, 185–6, 195, 204–5

  Ahichattra an ancient city in Rohilkhand in North India, the present Ramnagar 67

  aksha see myrobalan

  alabu see gourd, bottle

  almond, priyala Buchanania latifolia 164

  amalaka see gooseberry

  amaranth, red, kuranta Marsilea quadrifolia 17, 94, 161; yellow 174

  Amaru poet, author of the Amarushataka xxxviii, 192

  amrataka see hog-plum

  Anangaranga 15th-cent. Sanskrit erotic text xi–xii, xvi, lii–liii, lviii–lix, lxix, 189, 192, 210

  Andhra the Telugu-speaking area between the Godavari and Krishna rivers in Southeast India xi, 49, 54, 124

  Anga an ancient country in the area of the present West Bengal 129

  anjanika see ‘kohl-black’

  ant, upajihvika; jihvika 169–70

  anuloma/pratiloma see grain, with or against

  Arbuthnot, Foster Fitzgerald co-translator with Richard Burton xi, xvi, li–lxi, lxix

  arka see hemp, bowstring

  arrowroot lvii 96, 125

  arsenic, red, manahshila 163, 170

  arsenic, yellow, haritala, 170

  artha power or money, one of the three aims of human life xiii, xlvii, 3, 181, 185, 192, 206, 208–9; see also power

  Arthashastra the textbook of power, attributed to Kautilya xi, xxxiii, lxix, 4, 180–1, 184, 188, 197, 205–6

  ashvagandha see cherry, ground

  asparagus, shatavari Asparagus racemosus 165

  Asuras anti-gods or demons see demons

  Atharva Veda the fourth of the ancient Vedas, largely about magic spells xlviii, 161, 166, 173, 201, 210

  Auddalaki son of Uddalaka, surname of Shvetaketu xii, xiv, xl, 4, 30, 118, 157, 182–3, 190–1

  avalguja see kinka-oil plant

  Avanti, Avantika an ancient country northeast of the present Bombay; Ujjain is its capital 49

  Avimaraka hero of a play by Bhasa 117, 204

  Ayurveda ‘the Veda of long life,’ the ancient Indian science of medicine xx–xxiii, xxviii, 174, 183, 209

  Babhravya author of an earlier textbook of kama xii, 4–5, 16, 22, 26, 32, 34, 36, 39–41, 54, 73, 78, 100, 118, 129, 137, 147, 158, 167, 171, 183–4, 190–1, 194, 202, 206

  Bahlika an ancient country and people in the far northwest of India, the area of the present Pakistan and Afghanistan 49, 56

  bahupadika see mint

  balaka see lemon grass

  Bali a demon who usurped Indra’s throne 11

  baluka see cucumber

  bay, rose, East Indian, tagara Tabernaemontana coronaria 94, 161, 164, 170

  bay-tree, cinnamon, tamala Xanthchymus pictorius, Crataeva rox-burghii (a tree with very dark bark and white blossoms, also called garlic pear) 94

  bean, mashaka Phaseolus radiatus (a bean with black and grey spots) 164

  beard-grass, ushiraka fragrant root of Andropogon muricatus 94

  betel, tambula, nowadays called paan a delicacy made of a betel leaf rolled up around a paste lxvii, 17–18, 27, 49, 70, 79–80, 84, 88, 96, 111–12, 118, 136–7, 154, 187

  Bhagavata Purana 10th-cent. Sanskrit text devoted primarily to the god Krishna xix, xxii

  bhallataka see marking-nut

  Bhargava a descendant of the sage Bhrigu 11, 185

  Bhide, Shivaram Parashuram one of the pandits who translated the Kamasutra for Richard Burton l