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# Kamasutra 5.6.45

Kāmasūtra 5.6.45

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [5.6.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.5.6.45)

atigoṣṭhī niraṅkuśatvaṃ bhartuḥ svairatā puruṣaiḥ sahāniyantraṇatā/ pravāse 'vasthānaṃ videśe nivāsaḥ svavṛtty upaghātaḥ svairiṇīsaṃsargaḥ patyur īrṣyālutā ceti strīṇāṃ vināśakāraṇāni//

> The following are the causes of the destruction of a woman's chastity.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> Always going into society, and sitting in company.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> Absence of restraint.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> The loose habits of her husband.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> Want of caution in her relations with other men.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> Continued and long absence of her husband.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> Living in a foreign country.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> Destruction of her love and feelings by her husband.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> The company of loose women.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> The jealousy of her husband.  
> — 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.5.6.p16) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.34.49) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.5.6.45) — Sanskrit

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