It may help to view and understand some Tamil! sources.  

https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/மெய்ப்பாடு_(தொல்காப்பிய_நெறி) 

Regards,
rajam 

On Jun 2, 2025, at 11:42 AM, Tieken, H.J.H. (Herman) via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear Shubham, 
I can't help you with the article by Stanley Insler, but do like to draw your attention to the following article about the ten kāmāvasthās:
Eva Wilden, "The ten stages of passion (daśa kāmāvasthāḥ) and the eight types of marriage (aṣṭavivāha) in the Tolkāppiyam", in: Whitney Cox and Vincenzo Vergiani, Bilingual Discourse and Cross-Cultural Fertilisation: Sanskrit and Tamil in Medieval India, Pondichery, 2013, pp. 95-114.
Herman



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The Aśoka Inscriptions: Analysing a corpus, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2023.


Van: INDOLOGY <indology-bounces@list.indology.info> namens Shubham Arora via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>
Verzonden: maandag 2 juni 2025 18:33
Aan: Indology <indology@list.indology.info>
Onderwerp: [INDOLOGY] Request for Stanley Insler's 1988 essay on "daśa kāmāvasthāḥ"
 
Dear list members,

I’m trying to locate: Stanley Insler. 1988. “Les dix étapes de l’amour (daśa kāmāvasthāḥ) dans la littérature indienne.” Bulletin d’Etudes Indiennes 6: 307–328. 

If anyone has a copy and would be willing to share it, I’d be grateful.

With thanks in advance,
Shubham

—
Shubham Arora 
Doctoral Candidate
Dept. of Asian Studies | University of British Columbia
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