Third gender

[Andrey Klebanov]

...as well as: 
Zwilling, Leonard. 1992. Homosexuality as seen in indian buddhist texts. In Buddhism, Sexuality, and Gender. Ed. José Ignacio Cabezón. Albany: University of New York Press
a google-preview of which can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/cpaptdk

there are also some informations on these topics from the point of medical+sexological literature scattered throughout RP Das' monumental work (fortunately endowed with a detailed index):
Das, Rahul Peter. 2003. The Origin of the Life of a Human Being : Conception and the Female According to Ancient Indian Medical and Sexological Literature. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers.	
see, for example, his discussion of Skt terms. napuṃsaka and paṇḍaka

Andrey  


On 09.05.2012, at 17:45, Hartmut Buescher wrote:

>> ... studies of non-standard sexualities in ancient India (..., transsexualism, ... etc.)
> 
> Not least also in view of the significance of this issue in the MBh,
> Robert P. Goldman's 
> ”Transsexualism, Gender, and Anxiety in Traditional India”
> [in: Journal of the American Oriental Society 113.3 (1993): 374-401],
> providing a survey of ”a number of salient examples of transsexualism
> drawn from the religious and mythological texts of ancient and medieval 
> India” (further references in his bibliography), is likewise rather indispensible.
> 
> HB



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