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# Kamasutra 6.2.75

Kāmasūtra 6.2.75

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.2.75](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.75)

sūkṣmatvād atilobhāc ca prakṛtyājñānatas tathā/  
kāmalakṣma tu durjñānaṃ strīṇāṃ tad bhāvitair api//

> "The extent of the love of women is not known, even to those who are the objects of their affection, on account of its subtlety, and on account of the avarice, and natural intelligence of womankind."  
> — 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.6.2.p11) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.36.56) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.6.2.75) — Sanskrit

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