[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) › 1.5.3 # Kamasutra 1.5.3 Kāmasūtra 1.5.3 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.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:— > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 1.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.2) - [Next: 1.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.4) - [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.p3) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.8.4) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.1.5.3) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (2) - [A History of Sanskrit Literature: Classical Period, Vol. I](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.dasgupta-de-1947.c4.24) — S. N. Dasgupta & Sushil Kumar De, English - [Śūdras in Ancient India: A Social History of the Lower Order down to circa A.D. 600](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.sharma-1958.c13.442) — R. S. Sharma, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.3) · Pramāṇa