[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) › 2.1.27 # Kamasutra 2.1.27 Kāmasūtra 2.1.27 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.1.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.27) tatraitat syād upāyavailakṣaṇyavad eva hi kāryavailakṣaṇyam api kasmān na syād iti/ tac ca na/ hetumad upāyavailakṣaṇyam/ tatra kartrādhārayor bhinnalakṣaṇatvād ahetumat kāryavailakṣaṇyam anyāyyaṃ syāt/ ākṛter abhedād iti/ > It may be said that if the ways of working in men and women are different, why should not there be a difference, even in the pleasure they feel, and which is the result of those ways. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana > But this objection is groundless, for the person acting and the person acted upon being of different kinds, there is a reason for the difference in their ways of working; but there is no reason for any difference in the pleasure they feel, because they both naturally derive pleasure from the act they perform. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 2.1.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.26) - [Next: 2.1.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.28) - [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.p27) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.9.53) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.2.1.27) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.27) · Pramāṇa