[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) › 6.2.58 # Kamasutra 6.2.58 Kāmasūtra 6.2.58 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.2.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.58) balāt kāreṇa ca yady anyatra tayā nīyeta tadā viṣamanaśanaṃ śastraṃ rajjum iti kāmayeta/ > disputing continually with her mother on the subject of going to him, and, when forcibly taken by her mother to some other place, expressing her desire to die by taking poison, by starving herself to death, by stabbing herself with some weapon, or by hanging herself; and lastly assuring the man of her constancy and love by means of her agents, and receiving money herself, but abstaining from any dispute with her mother with regard to pecuniary matters. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 6.2.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.57) - [Next: 6.2.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.59) - [Up: 6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2) ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.6.2.p5.4) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.36.38) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.6.2.58) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.58](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.58) · Pramāṇa