[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) › 1.5.23 # Kamasutra 1.5.23 Kāmasūtra 1.5.23 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.5.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.23) saiva pravrajitā ṣaṣṭhīti suvarṇanābhaḥ/ > Suvarnanabha adds that a woman who passes the life of an ascetic and in the condition of a widow may be considered as a sixth kind of Nayika. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 1.5.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.22) - [Next: 1.5.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.24) - [Up: 1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5) ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.1.5.p31) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.8.23) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.1.5.23) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [History of Sanskrit Poetics](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.kane-1951.c5.1) — P. V. Kane, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.23) · Pramāṇa