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Kamasutra 5.5.5

Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes) 5.5.5

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Sanskrit

5.5.5

grāmādhipater āyuktakasya halotthavṛtti-putrasya((145)) yūno grāmīṇa-yoṣito vacana-mātra- sādhyāḥ. tāś carṣaṇya((146)) ity ācakṣate viṭāḥ.

The head man of the village, the Kings' officer employed there, and the man whose business it is to glean corn, can gain over female villagers simply by asking them. It is on this account that this class of woman are called unchaste women by voluptuaries.

Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

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