[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) › 1.5.4 # Kamasutra 1.5.4 Kāmasūtra 1.5.4 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.4) anyakāraṇavaśāt paraparigṛhītāpi pākṣikī caturthīti goṇikāputraḥ// > 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: 1.5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.3) - [Next: 1.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.5) - [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.8.5) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.1.5.4) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [The History and Culture of the Indian People](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.majumdar-1951-hcip.v3.c89.s16.40) — R. C. Majumdar & A. D. Pusalker, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.4) · Pramāṇa