INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF TIRUVALLUVAR
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A Lecture by Prof.Avvai Duraisami Pillai
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Part – 115
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Gentlemen,
By way of concluding my speech, I feel it is my legitimate duty now to dispel the erroneous doubt caused by some scholars by pronouncing very deliberately that Thiruvalluvar has only translated the Kama Sutra of Vatsayana. We know of course that one of the old commentators of Kural, Parimelalagar, is a great scholar in Sanskrit and if it is a fact, he would have certainly mentioned this in his introduction to Kamathupal as he has referred to the Sanskrit works of the famous king Bhoja. But I do admit that the absence of any reference to Vatsayana cannot be a sound reason to reject their view. I therefore beg to be permitted to give a brief summary of the content of the Kama Sutra of Vatsyana for favour of your kind and fair judgment.
Vatsayana’s Kama Sutra consists of seven chapters called Adhikaranas, namely, Sadharana, Samprayogika. Kanya Samprayuktaka.Bharyadhi-karika, Paradarika, Vaisika and Oupanishadha.
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