[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) › 1.3.12 # Kamasutra 1.3.12 Kāmasūtra 1.3.12 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.3.12) tasmād vaiśvāsikāj janād rahasi prayogāñ chāstram ekadeśaṃ vā strī gṛhṇīyāt// > A female, therefore, should learn the Kama Shastra, or at least a part of it, by studying its practice from some confidential friend. She should study alone in private the sixty-four practices that form a part of the Kama Shastra. Her teacher should be one of the following persons, viz., the daughter of a nurse brought up with her and already married, or a female friend who can be trusted in everything, or the sister of her mother (i.e., her aunt), or an old female servant, or a female beggar who may have formerly lived in the family, or her own sister, who can always be trusted. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 1.3.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.3.11) - [Next: 1.3.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.3.13) - [Up: 1.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.3) ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.1.3.p5) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.6.13) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.1.3.12) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [The History and Culture of the Indian People](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.majumdar-1951-hcip.v3.c89.s16.4) — R. C. Majumdar & A. D. Pusalker, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.3.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.3.12) · Pramāṇa