[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) › 2.1.18 # Kamasutra 2.1.18 Kāmasūtra 2.1.18 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.1.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.18) sātatyād yuvatir ārambhāt prabhṛti bhāvam adhigacchati/ puruṣaḥ punar anta eva/ etad upapannataram/ na hy asatyāṃ bhāvaprāptau garbhasaṃbhava iti bābhravīyāḥ// > The followers of Babhravya, however, say that the semen of women continues to fall from the beginning of the sexual union to its end, and it is right that it should be so, for if they had no semen there would be no embryo. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 2.1.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.17) - [Next: 2.1.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.19) - [Up: 2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1) ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.2.1.p20) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.9.32) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.2.1.18) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.18) · Pramāṇa