The Kāma Sūtra has a thirteenth-century commentary, called Jayamangala, written by one Yashodhara.
Though earlier works on the subject are no longer available, this genre became abundant in later times. The Kāma Sūtra is the earliest surviving text of the quasi-scientific genre of writing on the subject of erotic love known as kāma shāstra (the science of erotics). The dates of the author are uncertain, but evidence suggests he lived sometime in the third or fourth century of the common era, just before the inception of the great Gupta empire. KĀMA SŪTRA Composed by Vātsyāyana Mallanāga, the Kāma Sūtra is a treatise on erotic love, deemed one of the three spheres of worldly life in ancient India.
