[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) › 1.5.5 # Kamasutra 1.5.5 Kāmasūtra 1.5.5 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [1.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.5) sa yadā manyate svairiṇīyam// > 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 > (a) This woman is self-willed, and has been previously enjoyed by many others besides myself. I may, therefore, safely resort to her as to a public woman though she belongs to a higher caste than mine, and in so doing I shall not be violating the ordinances of Dharma. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 1.5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.4) - [Next: 1.5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.6) - [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) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.1.5.5) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.1.5.5) · Pramāṇa