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# Kamasutra 2.1.43

Kāmasūtra 2.1.43

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.1.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.1.43)

nānyo 'yam iti yatra syād anyasmin prītikāraṇe/  
tantrajñaiḥ kathyate sāpi prītiḥ saṃpratyayātmikā//

> (3) The love which is mutual on both sides, and proved to be true, when each looks upon the other as his or her very own, such is called love resulting from belief by the learned.  
> — 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.p43) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.10.5) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.2.1.43) — Sanskrit

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