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# Kamasutra 5.3.3

Kāmasūtra 5.3.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [5.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.5.3.3)

apratigṛhyābhiyogaṃ punar api saṃsṛjyamānāṃ dvidhā bhūtamānasāṃ vidyāt/ tāṃ krameṇa sādhayet//

> If she listens to him, but does not manifest to him in any way her own intentions, he should then try to gain her over by means of a go-between.  
> — 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.5.3.p3) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.31.3) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.5.3.3) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Kandarpacūḍāmaṇi](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.kandarpacudamani.26.3) — Vīrabhadra(deva) 1577, Sanskrit

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