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# Kamasutra 2.6.19

Kāmasūtra 2.6.19

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.6.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.6.19)

saṃpuṭakaprayuktayantreṇaiva dṛḍham ūrū pīḍayed iti pīḍitakam//

> When, after congress has begun in the clasping position, the woman presses her lover with her thighs, it is called the "pressing position."  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

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## Translations (1)

- [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.2.6.p12) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.15.18) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.2.6.19) — Sanskrit

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