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Kamasutra 6.5.33

Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes) 6.5.33

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6.5.33

gamyam anyato nivārayitu-kāmā saktam anyasyām apahartu-kāmā vā anyāṃ vā lābhato viyuyukṣamāṇā:gamya-saṃsargād ātmanaḥ sthānaṃ vṛddhim āyatim abhigamyatāṃ ca manyamānā an:artha-pratīkāre vā sāhāyyam enaṃ kārayitu-kāmā saktasya vānyasya vyalīkārthinī pūrvopakāram a:kṛtam iva paśyantī kevala-prīty-arthinī vā kalyāṇa-buddher alpam api lābhaṃ pratigṛhṇīyāt.

When a courtezan wants to keep some particular man from some other woman; or wishes to get him away from some woman to whom he may be attached; or to deprive some woman of the gains realized by her from him; or if she thinks that she would raise her position; or enjoy some great good fortune; or become desirable to all men by uniting herself with this man; or if she wishes to get his assistance in averting some misfortune; or is really attached to him and loves him or wishes to injure somebody through his means; or has regard to some former favor conferred upon her by him; or wishes to be united with him merely from desire; for any of the above reasons, she should agree to take from him only a small sum of money in a friendly way.

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

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