[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) › 2.1.26 # Kamasutra 2.1.26 Kāmasūtra 2.1.26 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.1.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.26) katham upāyavailakṣaṇyaṃ tu sargāt/ kartā hi puruṣo 'dhikaraṇaṃ yuvatiḥ/ anyathā hi kartā kriyāṃ pratipadyate 'nyathā cādhāraḥ/ tasmāc copāyavailakṣaṇyāt sargād abhimānavailakṣaṇyam api bhavati/ abhiyoktāham iti puruṣo 'nurajyate/ abhiyuktāham aneneti yuvatir iti vātsyāyanaḥ// > Vatsya says that this is so, because the ways of working as well as the consciousness of pleasure in men and women are different. The difference in the ways of working, by which men are the actors, and women are the persons acted upon, is owing to the nature of the male and the female, otherwise the actor would be sometimes the person acted upon, and vice versa. And from this difference in the ways of working follows the difference in the consciousness of pleasure, for a man thinks, “this woman is united with me,” and a woman thinks, “I am united with this man.” > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 2.1.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.25) - [Next: 2.1.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.27) - [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.p26) — 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.2.1.26) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.26) · Pramāṇa