[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) › 1.2.38 # Kamasutra 1.2.38 Kāmasūtra 1.2.38 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.2.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2.38) boddhavyaṃ tu doṣeṣv iva/ na hi bhikṣukāḥ santīti sthālyo nādhiśrīyante/ na hi mṛgāḥ santīti yavā nopayanta iti vātsyāyanaḥ// bhavanti cātra ślokāḥ: --- > This objection cannot be sustained, for pleasures, being as necessary for the existence and well being of the body as food, are consequently equally required. They are, moreover, the results of Dharma and Artha. Pleasures are therefore, to be followed with moderation and caution. No one refrains from cooking food because there are beggars to ask for it, or from sowing seed because there are deer to destroy the corn when it is grown up. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 1.2.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2.37) - [Next: 1.2.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2.39) - [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.p30) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.5.48) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.1.2.38) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.2.38) · Pramāṇa