[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) › 4.1.11 # Kamasutra 4.1.11 Kāmasūtra 4.1.11 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.4.1.11) svaraṃ bahir upaśrutya bhavanam āgacchataḥ kiṃ kṛtyam iti bruvatī sajjā bhavanamadhye tiṣṭhet// > The wife should always avoid the company of female beggars, female buddhist mendicants, unchaste and rougish women, female fortune tellers and witches. As regards meals she should always consider what her husband likes and dislikes, and what things are good for him, and what are injurious to him When she hears the sounds of his footsteps coming home she should at once get up, and be ready to do whatever he may command her, and either order her female servant to wash his feet, or wash them herself. When going anywhere with her husband she should put on her ornaments, and without his consent she should not either give or accept invitations, or attend marriages and sacrifices, or sit in the company of female friends, or visit the temples of the Gods. And if she wants to engage in any kind of games or sports, she should not do it against his will. In the same way she should always sit down after him, and get up before him, and should never awaken him when he is asleep. The kitchen should be situated in a quiet and retired place, so as not to be accessible to strangers, and should always look clean. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 4.1.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.4.1.10) - [Next: 4.1.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.4.1.12) - [Up: 4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.4.1) ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.4.1.p4) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.25.11) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.4.1.11) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.4.1.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.4.1.11) · Pramāṇa