[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) › 2.2.19 # Kamasutra 2.2.19 Kāmasūtra 2.2.19 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2.19) rāgāndhāv anapekṣitātyayau parasparam anuviśata ivotsaṅgagatāyām abhimukhopaviṣṭāyāṃ śayane veti kṣīrajalakam// > (4) When a man and a woman are very much in love with each other, and, not thinking of any pain or hurt, embrace each other as if they were entering into each other's bodies either while the woman is sitting on the lap of the man, or in front of him, or on a bed, then it is called an embrace like a "mixture of milk and water." > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 2.2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2.18) - [Next: 2.2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2.20) - [Up: 2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2) ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.2.2.p25) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.11.20) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.2.2.19) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2.19) · Pramāṇa