[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) › 2.5.18 # Kamasutra 2.5.18 Kāmasūtra 2.5.18 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.5.18) tad ubhayam api ca caṇḍavegayoḥ/ iti daśanacchedyāni// > (8) The biting which consists of many broad rows of marks near to one another, and with red intervals, is called the "biting of a boar." This is impressed on the breasts an the shoulders; and these two last modes of biting are peculiar to persons of intense passion. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana > Here end the different kinds of biting. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 2.5.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.5.17) - [Next: 2.5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.5.19) - [Up: 2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.5) ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.2.5.p21) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.14.18) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.2.5.18) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.5.18) · Pramāṇa