[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) › 2.2.23 # Kamasutra 2.2.23 Kāmasūtra 2.2.23 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2.23) tatrorusaṃdaṃśenaikam ūrum ūrudvayaṃ vā sarvaprāṇaṃ pīḍayet ity ūrūpagūhanam// > (1) When one of two lovers presses forcibly one or both of the thighs of the other between his or her own, it is called the "embrace of thighs." > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 2.2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2.22) - [Next: 2.2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2.24) - [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.p33) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.11.24) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.2.2.23) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [History of Sanskrit Poetics](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.kane-1951.c5.1) — P. V. Kane, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2.23) · Pramāṇa