[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) › 2.6.28 # Kamasutra 2.6.28 Kāmasūtra 2.6.28 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.6.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.6.28) nāyakasyāṃsa eko dvitīyakaḥ prasārita iti punaḥ punar vyatyāsena veṇudāritakam// > When the woman places one of her legs on her lovers' shoulder, and stretches the other out, and then places the latter on his shoulder, and stretches out the other, and continues to do so alternately, it is called the "splitting of a bamboo." > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 2.6.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.6.27) - [Next: 2.6.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.6.29) - [Up: 2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.6) ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.2.6.p20) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.2.6.28) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.6.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.6.28) · Pramāṇa