[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) › 5.4.56 # Kamasutra 5.4.56 Kāmasūtra 5.4.56 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [5.4.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.5.4.56) pratigrahacchalenānyām abhisaṃdhāyāsyāḥ saṃdeśaśrāvaṇadvāreṇa nāyakaṃ sādhayet tāṃ copahanyāt sāpi svayaṃ dūtī/ > The above name is also given to a woman who having made an agreement with some other woman to act as her go-between, gains over the man to herself, by the means of making him personally acquainted with herself, and thus causes the other woman to fail. The same applies to a man who, acting as a go-between for another, and having no previous connection with the woman, gains her over for himself, and thus causes the failure of the other man. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 5.4.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.5.4.55) - [Next: 5.4.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.5.4.57) - [Up: 5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.5.4) ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.5.4.p28) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.32.55) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.5.4.56) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.5.4.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.5.4.56) · Pramāṇa