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# Kamasutra 2.8.34

Kāmasūtra 2.8.34

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.8.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.2.8.34)

yuktayantrā cakravad bhramed iti bhramaraka ābhyāsikaḥ//

> (2) When, while engaged in congress, she turns round like a wheel, it is called the "top." This is learnt by practice only.  
> — 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.2.8.p32) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.17.25) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.2.8.34) — Sanskrit

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