[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) › 2.3.22 # Kamasutra 2.3.22 Kāmasūtra 2.3.22 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.3.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.3.22) etena balād vadanaradanagrahaṇaṃ dānaṃ ca vyākhyātam// > When one of them takes both the lips of the other between his or her own, it is called "a clasping kiss." A woman, however, only takes this kind of kiss from a man who has no moustache. And on the occasion of this kiss, if one of them touches the teeth, the tongue, and the palate of the other, with his or her tongue, it is called the "fighting of the tongue." In the same way, the pressing of the teeth of the one against the mouth of the other is to be practiced. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 2.3.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.3.21) - [Next: 2.3.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.3.23) - [Up: 2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.3) ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.2.3.p24) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.12.24) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.2.3.22) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.3.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.3.22) · Pramāṇa