[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) › 2.3.31 # Kamasutra 2.3.31 Kāmasūtra 2.3.31 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.3.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.3.31) saṃvāhikāyās tu nāyakam ākārayantyā nidrāvaśād akāmāyā iva tasyorvor vadanasya nidhānam ūrucumbanaṃ pādāṅguṣṭha^\*cumbanaṃ cety ābhiyogikāni// bhavati cātra ślokaḥ --- > There is also a verse on this subject as follows: > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana > When at night at a theatre, or in an assembly of caste men, a man coming up to a woman kisses a finger of her hand if she be standing, or a toe of her foot if she be sitting, or when a woman in shampooing her lover's body, places her face on his thigh (as if she were sleepy) so as to inflame his passion, and kisses his thigh or great toe, it is called a "demonstrative kiss." > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 2.3.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.3.30) - [Next: 2.3.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.3.32) - [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.p32) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.12.33) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.2.3.31) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.3.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.3.31) · Pramāṇa