ꯁꯟꯗꯣꯛꯅꯥ ꯇꯥꯛꯄꯥRichard Burton's edition of Kamasutra 1883 edition.jpg
English: Title page of the 1883 edition of Sir Richard Burton's translation.
Burton did not translate the original Sanskrit text. He edited it and published it under his name and a fake publishing house called "Hindoo Kama Shastra Society". The unedited translation was produced by the Indian scholar Bhagwan Lal Indraji with the assistance of a student Shivaram Parshuram Bhide, under the guidance of the Indian civil servant Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot.
According to Wendy Doniger, the Burton version is a "flawed English translation" but influential as modern translators and abridged versions of Kamasutra even in the Indian languages such as Hindi are re-translations of the Burton version, rather than the original Sanskrit manuscript. For further critical commentary:
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