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# Kamasutra 2.1.15

Kāmasūtra 2.1.15

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.15)

tatraitat syāt/ ciravege nāyake striyo 'nurajyante śīghravegasya bhāvam anāsādyāvasāne 'bhyasūyinyo \*bhavati/ tat sarvaṃ bhāvaprāpter aprāpteś ca lakṣaṇam//

> This opinion is however objected to on the grounds, that if a male be long-timed, the female loves him the more, but if he be short-timed, she is dissatisfied with him. And this circumstance, some say, would prove that the female emits also.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

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## Translations (1)

- [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.2.1.p17) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.9.26) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.2.1.15) — Sanskrit

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