Kamasutra 6.4.40

Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes) 6.4.40

Language: Sanskrit

6.4.40

a:saktam abhinandeta saktaṃ paribhavet tathā. anya-dūtānupāte ca yaḥ syād ati:viśāradaḥ..

"A courtezan should be agreeable to the man who is attached to her, and despise the man who does not care for her. If while she is living with one man, a messenger comes to her from some other man, she may either refuse to listen to any negotiations on his part, or appoint a fixed time for him to visit her, but she should not leave the man who may be living with her and who may be attached to her."
Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

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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

Linked texts (1)

Kāmakuñjalatā — Sanskrit