Kamasutra 5.6.45

Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes) 5.6.45

Language: Sanskrit

5.6.45

ati:goṣṭhī nir:aṅkuśatvaṃ bhartuḥ svairatā puruṣaiḥ sahā:niyantraṇatā pravāse 'vasthānaṃ videśe nivāsaḥ sva-vṛtty-upaghātaḥ svairiṇī-saṃsargaḥ patyur īrṣyālutā ceti strīṇāṃ vināśa-kāraṇāni.

The following are the causes of the destruction of a woman's chastity.
Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

Always going into society, and sitting in company.
Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

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

The loose habits of her husband.
Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

Want of caution in her relations with other men.
Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

Continued and long absence of her husband.
Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

Living in a foreign country.
Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

Destruction of her love and feelings by her husband.
Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

The company of loose women.
Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

The jealousy of her husband.
Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

Translations (1)

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

Commentaries (1)

Jayamaṅgalā — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

Other recensions (1)

Nirṇayasāgara edition (1900) — Sanskrit