[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) › 4.1.8 # Kamasutra 4.1.8 Kāmasūtra 4.1.8 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.4.1.8) madhye kūpaṃ vāpīṃ dīrghikāṃ vā khānayet// > Towards the parents, relations, friends, sisters, and servants of her husband she should behave as they deserve. In the garden she should plant beds of green vegetables, bunches of the sugar cane, and clumps of the fig tree, the mustard plant, the parsley plant, the fennel plant, and the xanthochymus pictorius. Clusters of various flowers such as the trapa bispinosa, the jasmine, the gasminum grandiflorum, the yellow amaranth, the wild jasmine, the tabernamontana coronaria, the nadyaworta, the china rose and others, should likewise be planted, together with the fragrant grass andropogon, schasnanthus, and the fragrant root of the plant andropogon miricatus. She should also have seats and arbors made in the garden, in the middle of which a well, tank, or pool should be dug. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 4.1.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.4.1.7) - [Next: 4.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.4.1.9) - [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.p3) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.25.8) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.4.1.8) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.4.1.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.4.1.8) · Pramāṇa