[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) › 2.2.29 # Kamasutra 2.2.29 Kāmasūtra 2.2.29 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.2.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2.29) pṛcchatāṃ śṛṇvatāṃ vāpi tathā kathayatām api/ upagūhavidhiṃ kṛtsnaṃ riraṃsā jāyate nṛṇām// > "The whole subject of embracing is of such a nature that men who ask questions about it, or who hear about it, or who talk about it, acquire thereby a desire for enjoyment. Even those embraces that are not mentioned in the Kama Shastra should be practiced at the time of sexual enjoyment, if they are in any way conducive to the increase of love or passion. The rules of the Shastra apply so long as the passion of man is middling, but when the wheel of love is once set in motion, there is then no Shastra and no order." > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 2.2.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2.28) - [Next: 2.2.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2.30) - [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.p39) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.11.30) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.2.2.29) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Kāmakuñjalatā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.kamakunjalata.22.13) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.2.29) · Pramāṇa