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# Kamasutra 2.10.21

Kāmasūtra 2.10.21

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.10.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.10.21)

puruṣas tu hṛdayapriyām anyāṃ manasi nidhāya vyavaharet/ saṃprayogāt prabhṛti ratiṃ yāvat/ atas tad vyavahitarāgam//

> (4) When a man, from the beginning to the end of the congress, though having connection with the woman, thinks all the time that he is enjoying another one whom he loves, it is called the "congress of transferred love."  
> — 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.2.10.p16) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.19.34) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.2.10.21) — Sanskrit

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