39 examples of kama in sentences

The aroka, or Saraca indica, is said to preserve chastity, and is dedicated to Kama, the Indian god of love, while with the negroes of Senegambia the baobab-tree is an object of worship.

Thus at one time the Bulgars settled in large numbers on the Volga, near its confluence with the Kama, and it is presumed that they were well established there in the fifth century.

Having passed the river Kama, we came to a city on the European side, called Soloy Kamoskoi, where we found the people mostly Pagans as before.

Ovid's Ars Amandi is a model of purity compared with the Hindoo "Art of Love," the K[=a]mas[=u]tram (or Kama Soutra) of V[=a]tsy[=a]yana, which is nothing less than a handbook for libertines, of which it would be impossible even to print the table of contents.

She sees the Brahman Tscharudatta in the temple garden of Kama, the god of love, and forthwith falls in love with him, as he does with her, though he is married.

" No. 473: "For the sake of the dark-eyed girls whose hips and thighs are visible through their wet dresses when they bathe in the afternoon, does Kama [the god of love] wield his bow.

Since I saw you, god Kama has tortured me violently; therefore you must sometime take pity on me, great king!'"

"The moon's rays which formerly tortured me now refresh my body, and welcome are Kama's arrows which used to wound me."

ARTIFICIAL SYMPTOMS Commenting on the directions for caressing given in the Kama Soutra, Lamairesse remarks (56): "All these practices and caresses are conventional rather than natural, like everything the Hindoos do.

THE HINDOO GOD OF LOVE Quite as artificial and unsentimental as the notions of the Hindoos concerning the symptoms of love is their conception of their god of love, Kama, the husband of Lust.

Sakuntala's lover wails that Kama's arrows are "not flowers, but hard as diamond."

Agnimitra declares that the Creator made his beloved "the poison-steeped arrow of the God of Love;" and again, he says: "The softest and the sharpest things are united in you, O Kama."

Urvasi's royal lover complains that his "heart is pierced by Kama's arrow," and in Malati and Madhava we are told that "a cruel god no doubt is Kama;" while No. 329 of Ilâla's love-poems declares: "The arrows of Kama are most diverse in their effectsthough made of flowers, very hard; though not coming into direct contact, insufferably hot; and though piercing, yet causing delight.

Urvasi's royal lover complains that his "heart is pierced by Kama's arrow," and in Malati and Madhava we are told that "a cruel god no doubt is Kama;" while No. 329 of Ilâla's love-poems declares: "The arrows of Kama are most diverse in their effectsthough made of flowers, very hard; though not coming into direct contact, insufferably hot; and though piercing, yet causing delight.

Urvasi's royal lover complains that his "heart is pierced by Kama's arrow," and in Malati and Madhava we are told that "a cruel god no doubt is Kama;" while No. 329 of Ilâla's love-poems declares: "The arrows of Kama are most diverse in their effectsthough made of flowers, very hard; though not coming into direct contact, insufferably hot; and though piercing, yet causing delight.

Kama is one of the later gods of the Indian Pantheon, and there is every reason to believe that the Hindoos borrowed him from the Greeks, as the Romans did.

Besides being artificial and borrowed, Kama is entirely sensual.

Kama means "gratification of the senses," and of all the epithets bestowed on their god of love by the Hindoos none rises distinctly above sensual ideas.

"It is permissible," says the author of Kama Soutra, "to seduce another man's wife if one is in danger of dying from love for her;" upon which Lamairesse comments: "This principle, liberally interpreted by those interested, excuses all intrigues; in theory it is capable of accommodating itself to all cases, and in the practice of the Hindoos it does thus accommodate itself.

The directions for this form of courtship given in the Kama Soutra indicate that Sakuntala had every reason to appeal to the rules of propriety, social and moral.

Lamairesse, E.: Kama Soutra.

Of wicked soul, and vicious disposition, haughty and villainous, and always afflicted by the shafts of Kama, though repulsed repeatedly, if he sees me again, he will outrage me.

It forms one of the five darts with which the Indian God of Love is supposed to pierce the hearts of young mortals.[099] Sir William Jones refers to it in his Hymn to Kama Deva.

It is supposed to form one of the darts of Kama Deva or the God of Love.

and I will be the Nawab; and Kama, here, shall be Kurreim Khan, the sowar; and Joota shall be Metcalfe Sahib, the magistrate; and the rest of you shall be the sahibs, and the sepoys, and the priests.

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