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# Kamasutra 1.1.12

Kāmasūtra 1.1.12

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.1.12)

tat prasaṅgāc cārāyaṇaḥ sādhāraṇam adhikaraṇaṃ pṛthak provāca/ suvarṇanābhaḥ sāṃprayogikam/ ghoṭakamukhaḥ kanyāsaṃprayuktakam/ gonardīyo bhāryādhikārikam/ goṇikāputraḥ pāradārikam/ kucumāra aupaniṣadikam iti/

> Suvarnanabha (second part).  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> Ghotakamukha (third part).  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> Gonatdiya (fourth part).  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> Gonikaputra (fifth part).  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> Kuchumara (seventh part), respectively.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> The sixth part of this last work was separately expounded by Dattaka at the request of the public women of Pataliputra (Patna), and in the same way Charayana explained the first part of it. The remaining parts, viz., the second, third, fourth, fifth, and seventh were each separately expounded by:—  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

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## Translations (1)

- [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.1.1.p12) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.1.16) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.1.1.12) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [A History of Indian Medical Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.meulenbeld-1999.v3.c46.1261) — G. Jan Meulenbeld, English

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