[INDOLOGY] Translation of Ratirahasya? Richard Schmidt

Thu Jun 16 18:40:14 UTC 2022

> Information given by Christophe Vielle is correct. Sorry To have got
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> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 8:48 PM Christophe Vielle via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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>> Very interesting. In the uploader's description on Archiv the date of
>> 1923 is given, and at the end of the scan the mention "Druck von Grimme,
>> Berlin" is visible. This seems to be the English translation ascribed to
>> Richard Schmidt (
>> https://www.indologie.uni-halle.de/institutsgeschichte/richard_schmidt/)
>> referred to in the following notice:
>>
>> https://www.worldcat.org/title/ratirahasyam-or-the-secret-of-sexual-pleasure/oclc/829456170
>> (cf. given pages: 101 + 35 + 4 like here)
>> unfortunately without library location (however, this ref. must
>> correspond to some catalogue notice).
>> I found the following reference (
>> https://books.google.com/books?id=Jye0BQAAQBAJ p. 519) which could match
>> therewith:
>> "Schmidt, R. Kokkoka's Ratirahasyam. Gesch. u. Gesellsch., N. F. XII. 145
>> ff.'
>> Unfortunately, the issue 12, 1924/1925, of the "Geschlecht und
>> Gesellschaft" periodical seems unavailable:
>> https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Geschlecht_und_Gesellschaft
>> By the way, the printer, place and typography of the available issues of
>> this journal (in German only) do not correspond to the scan on Archiv,
>> unless it was an autonomous, supplemental, publication of  the Berlin
>> "Institut für Sexualwissenschaft" which published the journal (
>> https://magnus-hirschfeld.de/institut/personen/forscher/ ). The fact is
>> that Schmidt published also "Das Weib im altindischen Epos" in *Geschlecht
>> und Gesellschaft *Bd . 10, 1921  (Dresden Verlag R. A. Giesecke ), pp.
>> 15-23, 57–64 :
>> https://archive.org/details/geschlecht-und-gesellschaft-10.1921/page/14/mode/2up
>> Possibly, Richard Schimdt had prepared/published a German translation
>> before (of which there is no concrete trace, only a reference "[1903] *Das
>> Ratirahasyam: Die indische Ars Amatoria*", Berlin", at:
>> http://repo.komazawa-u.ac.jp/opac/repository/all/29339/rbb036-20.pdf p.
>> [90]).
>> His English translation was reissued in Calcutta, Medical Book Company [1949],
>> ed. T.N. Ray, together with the translation by Yato Dharma Tato Jaya of
>> the Tamil version of Ativīrarāma Pāṇṭiyar
>> https://www.worldcat.org/title/secrets-of-love/oclc/1245331259
>> https://www.worldcat.org/title/kokkokam/oclc/637342456
>> https://www.worldcat.org/title/secrets-of-love/oclc/5587060
>> 2nd rev. ed. of , Calcutta : S. Ghattack for Medical Book Co, 1960
>> https://www.worldcat.org/title/kokkokam/oclc/249083479
>> https://www.worldcat.org/title/kokkokam-rati-rahasyam/oclc/233904615
>> It can be seen that the notes of this translation refer to two London IO
>> mss. also dealt with by Schmidt in his work on Indian erotics (3rd ed.
>> 1922; 1st ed. 1901, 2nd ed. 1910):
>> https://archive.org/details/beitrgezurindi00schm/page/64/mode/2up
>>
>> Bw
>> Christophe
>>
>>
>> Le 16 juin 2022 à 07:05, Ajit Gargeshwari via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> a écrit :
>>
>> The book is  Koka Shastra: Being The Ratirahasya Of Kokkoka And Other
>> Medieval Indian Writings On Love By Alex Comfort .
>> The Book has 176 Pages and the one at archives  for which you have given
>> the link has 146 pages.  I Suppose The introductory and cover pages are
>> missing..
>>
>> The complete  book is available to borrow and read at archives.org
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>> अजो नित्यः शाश्वतोऽयं पुराणो न हन्यते हन्यमाने शरीरे।।2.20।।
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 8:58 AM Yang Qu via INDOLOGY <
>> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear List Members,
>>>
>>> Greetings!
>>>
>>> I wonder if anyone could kindly provide me with more information about
>>> this particular translation of *Ratirahasya* (*Kokaśāstra*)?
>>>
>>> https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.219313/page/n3/mode/2up
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>>>
>>> Neither its translator nor publishing place is indicated in the
>>> document, and it's clear that it's not the translation of either Alex
>>> Comfort or S. C. Upadhyaya. I would really appreciate it if anyone could
>>> kindly shed some light on this.
>>>
>>> Thank you so much!
>>>
>>> best wishes,
>>> Yang Qu
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