Kamasutra 1.5.3
Kāmasūtra 1.5.3
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- Sanskrit
1.5.3
tatra nāyikās tisraḥ kanyā punarbhūr veśyā ca/ iti//
Nayikas, therefore, are of three kinds, viz., maids, women twice married, and public women. Gonikaputra has expressed an opinion that there is a fourth kind of Nayika, viz., a woman who is resorted to on some special occasion even though she be previously married to another. These special occasions are when a man thinks thus:—
Translations (1)
- The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English
Commentaries (1)
- Jayamaṅgalā — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit
Other recensions (1)
- Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes) — Sanskrit
Linked texts (2)
- A History of Sanskrit Literature: Classical Period, Vol. I — S. N. Dasgupta & Sushil Kumar De, English
- Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600 — R. S. Sharma, English