[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Polity, Pleasure & Law](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti) › [Erotics and the Art of Love](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama) › [Kamasutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana) › 1.2.12 # Kamasutra 1.2.12 Kāmasūtra 1.2.12 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2.12) sparśaviśeṣaviṣayāt tv asyābhimānikasukhānuviddhā phalavaty arthapratītiḥ prādhānyāt kāmaḥ// > Kama is the enjoyment of appropriate objects by the five senses of hearing, feeling, seeing, tasting, and smelling, assisted by the mind together with the soul. The ingredient in this is a peculiar contact between the organ of sense and its object, and the consciousness of pleasure which arises from that contact is called Kama. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 1.2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2.11) - [Next: 1.2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2.13) - [Up: 1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2) ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.1.2.p7) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.5.12) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.1.2.12) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2.12) · Pramāṇa