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# Kamasutra 2.1.2

Kāmasūtra 2.1.2

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.1.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.2)

tatra sadṛśasaṃprayoge samaratāni trīṇi//

> There are thus three unions between persons of corresponding dimensions, and there are six unequal unions, when the dimensions do not correspond, or nine in all, as the following table shows:  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> EQUAL. · UNEQUAL.  
> Men. · Women. · Men. · Women.  
> Hare. · Deer. · Hare. · Mare.  
> Bull. · Mare. · Hare. · Elephant.  
> Horse. · Elephant. · Bull. · Deer.  
> Bull. · Elephant.  
> Horse. · Deer.  
> Horse. · Mare.  
> — 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.p4) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.9.3) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.2.1.2) — Sanskrit

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