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# Kamasutra 4.2.55

Kāmasūtra 4.2.55

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [4.2.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.4.2.55)

antaḥpurāṇāṃ ca vṛttam eteṣv eva prakaraṇeṣu lakṣayet//

> The above sections will show how all the women of the King’s seraglio are to behave, and therefore we shall now speak separately only about the king.  
> — 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.4.2.p20) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.26.71) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.4.2.55) — Sanskrit

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