[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 # Kamasutra 6.2 Kāmasūtra 6.2 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2) kāntānuvṛttaṃ ### [6.2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.1) saṃyuktā nāyakena tad rañjanārtham ekacāriṇīvṛttam anutiṣṭhet/ > When a courtezan is living as a wife with her lover, she should behave like a chaste woman, and do everything to his satisfaction. Her duty in this respect, in short, is, that she should give him pleasure, but should not become attached to him, though behaving as if she were really attached. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [6.2.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.2) rañjayen na tu sajjeta saktavac ca viceṣṭeteti saṃkṣepoktiḥ/ ### [6.2.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.3) mātari ca krūraśīlāyām arthaparāyāṃ cāyattā syāt/ > Now the following is the manner in which she is to conduct herself, so as to accomplish the above mentioned purpose. She should have a mother dependent on her, one who should be represented as very harsh, and who looked upon money as her chief object in life. In the event of there being no mother, then an old and confidential nurse should play the same role. The mother or nurse, on their part, should appear to be displeased with the lover, and forcibly take her away from him. The woman herself should always show pretended anger, dejection, fear, and shame on this account, but should not disobey the mother or nurse at any time. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [6.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.4) tad abhāve mātṛkāyām/ ### [6.2.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.5) sā tu gamyena nātiprīyeta/ ### [6.2.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.6) prasahya ca duhitaram ānayet/ ### [6.2.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.7) tatra tu nāyikāyāḥ saṃtatam aratir nirvedo vrīḍābhayaṃ ca/ ### [6.2.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.8) na tv eva śāsanātivṛttiḥ/ ### [6.2.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.9) vyādhiṃ caikam animittam ajugupsitam acakṣurgrāhyam anityaṃ ca khyāpayet/ > She should make out to the mother or nurse that the man is suffering from bad health, and making this a pretext for going to see him, she should go on that account. She is, moreover, to do the following things for the purpose of gaining the man's favor, viz.: > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [6.2.10](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.10) sati kāraṇe tad apadeśaṃ ca nāyakān abhigamanam/ ### [6.2.11](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.11) nirmālyasya tu nāyikā ceṭikāṃ preṣayet tāmbūlasya ca// > Sending her female attendant to bring the flowers used by him on the previous day, in order that she may use them herself as a mark of affection, also asking for the mixture of betel nut and leaves that have remained uneaten by him; expressing wonder at his knowledge of sexual intercourse, and the several means of enjoyment used by him; learning from him the sixty-four kinds of pleasure mentioned by Babhravya; continually practicing the ways of enjoyment as taught by him, and according to his liking; keeping his secrets; telling him her own desires and secrets; concealing her anger; never neglecting him on the bed when he turns his face towards her; touching any parts of his body according to his wish; kissing and embracing him when he is asleep; looking at him with apparent anxiety when he is wrapt in thought, or thinking of some other subject than herself; showing neither complete shamelessness, nor excessive bashfulness when he meets her, or sees her standing on the terrace of her house from the public road: hating his enemies; loving those who are dear to him; showing a liking for that which he likes; bemg in high or low spirits according to the state that he is in himself; expressing a curiosity to see his wives; not continuing her anger for a long time; suspecting even the marks and wounds made by herself with her nails and teeth on his body to have been made by some other woman; > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [6.2.12](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.12) vyavāye tad upacāreṣu vismayaś ### [6.2.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.13) catuḥṣaṣṭyāṃ śiṣyatvaṃ ### [6.2.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.14) tad upadiṣṭānāṃ ca yogānām abhīkṣṇyenānuyogas ### [6.2.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.15) tat sātmyād rahasi vṛttir ### [6.2.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.16) manorathānām ākhyānaṃ ### [6.2.17](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.17) guhyānāṃ vaikṛtapracchādanaṃ ### [6.2.18](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.18) śayane parāvṛttasyānupekṣaṇam ### [6.2.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.19) ānulomyaṃ guhyasparśane ### [6.2.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.20) suptasya cumbanam āliṅganaṃ ca// ### [6.2.21](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.21) prekṣaṇam anyamanaskasya/ rājamārge ca prāsādasthāyās tatra viditāyā vrīḍāśāṭhyanāśaḥ/ ### [6.2.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.22) tad dveṣye dveṣyatā/ tat priye priyatā/ tad ramyeratiḥ/ tam anu harṣaśokau/ strīṣu jijñāsā/ kopaś cādīrghaḥ/ ### [6.2.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.23) svakṛteṣv api nakhadaśanacihneṣv anyāśaṅkā// ### [6.2.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.24) anurāgasyāvacanam > keeping her love for him unexpressed by words, but showing it by deeds, and signs, and hints; remaining silent when he is asleep, intoxicated, or sick; being very attentive when he describes his good actions, and reciting them afterwards to his praise and benefit; giving witty replies to him if he be sufficiently attached to her; listening to all his stories except those that relate to her rivals; expressing feelings of dejection and sorrow if he sighs, yawns, or falls down, pronouncing the words "live long" when he sneezes; pretending to be ill, or to have the desire of pregnancy when she feels dejected; abstaining from praising the good qualities of any body else, and from censuring those who possess the same faults as her own man; wearing anything that may have been given to her by him; abstaining from putting on her ornaments, and from taking food when he is in pain, sick, low-spirited, or suffering from misfortune, and condoling and lamenting with him over the same; wishing to accompany him if he happens to leave the country himself or if he be banished from it by the King; expressing a desire not to live after him; telling him that the whole object and desire of her life was to be united with him; offering previously promised sacrifices to the Deity when he acquires wealth, or has some desire fulfilled, or when he has recovered from some illness or disease; putting on ornaments every day; not acting too freely with him; > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [6.2.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.25) ākāratas tu darśayet/ ### [6.2.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.26) madasvapnavyādhiṣu tu nirvacanam/ ### [6.2.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.27) ślāghyānāṃ nāyakakarmaṇāṃ ca/ ### [6.2.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.28) tasmin bruvāṇe vākyārthagrahaṇam/ tad avadhārya praśaṃsāviṣaye bhāṣaṇam/ tad vākyasya cottareṇa yojanam/ bhaktimāṃś cet/ ### [6.2.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.29) kathāsv anuvṛttir anyatra sapatnyāḥ/ ### [6.2.30](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.30) niḥśvāse jṛmbhite skhalite patite vā tasya cārtim āśaṃsīta/ ### [6.2.31](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.31) kṣutavyāhṛtavismiteṣu jīvety udāharaṇam/ ### [6.2.32](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.32) daurmanasye vyādhidaurhṛdāpadeśaḥ/ ### [6.2.33](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.33) guṇataḥ parasyākīrtanam/ ### [6.2.34](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.34) na nindā samānadoṣasya/ ### [6.2.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.35) dattasya dhāraṇam/ ### [6.2.36](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.36) vṛthāparādhe tad vyasane vālaṃkārasyāgrahaṇam abhojanaṃ ca/ ### [6.2.37](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.37) tad yuktāś ca vilāpāḥ/ ### [6.2.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.38) tena saha deśamokṣaṃ rocayed rājani niṣkrayaṃ ca/ ### [6.2.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.39) sāmarthyam āyuṣas tad avāptau/ ### [6.2.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.40) tasyārthādhigame 'bhipretasiddhau śarīropacaye vā pūrvasaṃbhāṣita iṣṭadevatopahāraḥ/ ### [6.2.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.41) nityam alaṃkārayogaḥ/ parimito 'bhyavahāraḥ/ ### [6.2.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.42) gīte ca nāmagotrayor grahaṇam/ glānyām urasi lalāṭe ca karaṃ kurvīta/ tat sukham upalabhya nidrālābhaḥ/ > reciting his name and the name of his family in her songs; placing his hand on her loins, bosom and forehead, and falling asleep after feeling the pleasure of his touch; sitting on his lap and falling asleep there; wishing to have a child by him; desiring not to live longer than he does; abstaining from revealing his secrets to others; dissuading him from vows and fasts by saying "let the sin fall upon me;" keeping vows and fasts along with him when it is impossible to change his mind on the subject; telling him that vows and fasts are difficult to be observed, even by herself, when she has any dispute with him about them; looking on her own wealth and his without any distinction; abstaining from going to public assemblies without him, and accompanying him when he desires her to do so; taking delight in using things previously used by him, and in eating food that he has left uneaten; venerating his family, his disposition, his skill in the arts, his learning, his caste, his complexion, his native country, his friends, his good qualities, his age, and his sweet temper; asking him to sing, and to do other such like things, if able to do them; going to him without paying any regard to fear, to cold, to heat, or to rain; saying with regard to the next world that he should be her lover even there; adapting her tastes, disposition and actions to his liking; abstaining from sorcery; > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [6.2.43](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.43) utsaṅge cāsyopaveśanaṃ svapanaṃ ca/ gamanaṃ viyoge/ ### [6.2.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.44) tasmāt putrārthinī syāt/ āyuṣo nādhikyam icchet// ### [6.2.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.45) etasyāvijñātam arthaṃ rahasi na brūyāt/ ### [6.2.46](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.46) vratam upavāsaṃ cāsya nirvartayet mayi doṣa iti/ aśakye svayam api tad rūpā syāt/ ### [6.2.47](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.47) vivāde tenāpy aśakyam ity arthanirdeśaḥ/ ### [6.2.48](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.48) tadīyam ātmīyaṃ vā svayam aviśeṣeṇa paśyet/ ### [6.2.49](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.49) tena vinā goṣṭhy ādīnām agamanam iti/ ### [6.2.50](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.50) nirmālyadhāraṇe ślāghā ucchiṣṭabhojane ca/ ### [6.2.51](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.51) kulaśīlaśilpajātividyāvarṇavittadeśamitra^guṇavayomādh uryapūjā/ ### [6.2.52](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.52) gītādiṣu codanam abhijñasya/ ### [6.2.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.53) bhayaśītoṣṇavarṣāṇy anapekṣya tad abhigamanam/ ### [6.2.54](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.54) sa eva ca me syād ity aurdhvadehikeṣu vacanam/ ### [6.2.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.55) tad iṣṭarasabhāvaśīlānuvartanam/ ### [6.2.56](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.56) mūlakarmābhiśaṅkā/ ### [6.2.57](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.57) tad abhigamane ca jananyā saha nityo vivādaḥ/ > 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 ### [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/ ### [6.2.59](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.59) pratyāyanaṃ ca praṇidhibhir nāyakasya/ svayaṃ vātmano vṛttigrahaṇam/ ### [6.2.60](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.60) na tv evārtheṣu vivādaḥ/ ### [6.2.61](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.61) mātrā vinā kiṃ cin na ceṣṭeta// ### [6.2.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.62) pravāse śīghrāgamanāya śāpadānam/ > When the man sets out on a journey, she should make him swear that he will return quickly, and in his absence should put aside her vows of worshipping the Deity, and should wear no ornaments except those that are lucky. If the time fixed for his return has passed, she should endeavor to ascertain the real time of his return from omens, from the reports of the people, and from the position of the planets, the moon and the stars. On occasions of amusement, and of auspicious dreams she should say, "Let me be soon united to him." If, moreover, she feels melancholy, or sees any inauspicious omen, she should perform some rite to appease the Deity. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [6.2.63](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.63) proṣite mṛjāniyamaś cālaṃkārasya pratiṣedhaḥ/ maṅgalaṃ tv apekṣyam/ ekaṃ śaṅkhavalayaṃ vā dhārayet/ ### [6.2.64](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.64) smaraṇam atītānām/ gamanam īkṣaṇikopaśrutīnām/ nakṣatracandrasūryatārābhyaḥ spṛhaṇam/ ### [6.2.65](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.65) iṣṭasvapnadarśane tat saṃgamo mamāstv iti vacanam/ ### [6.2.66](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.66) udvego 'niṣṭe śāntikarma ca/ ### [6.2.67](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.67) pratyāgate kāmapūjā/ > When the man does return home she should worship the God Kama (i.e., the Indian Cupid), and offer oblations to other Deities, and having caused a pot filled with water to be brought by her friends, she should perform the worship in honor of the crow who eats the offerings which we make to the manes of deceased relations. After the first visit is over she should ask her lover also to perform certain rites, and this he will do if he is sufficiently attached to her. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [6.2.68](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.68) devatopahārāṇāṃ karaṇam/ ### [6.2.69](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.69) sakhībhiḥ pūrṇapātrasyāharaṇam/ ### [6.2.70](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.70) vāyasapūjā ca/ ### [6.2.71](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.71) prathamasamāgamānantaraṃ caitad eva vāyasapūjāvarjam/ ### [6.2.72](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.72) saktasya cānumaraṇaṃ brūyāt// ### [6.2.73](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.73) nisṛṣṭabhāvaḥ samānavṛttiḥ prayojanakārī nirāśaṅko nirapekṣo 'rtheṣv iti saktalakṣaṇāni// > Now a man is said to be sufficiently attached to a woman when his love is disinterested; when he has the same object in view as his beloved one; when he is quite free from any suspicions on her account; and when he is indifferent to money with regard to her. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [6.2.74](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.74) tad etan nirdarśanārthaṃ dattakaśāsanād uktam/ anuktaṃ ca lokataḥ śīlayet puruṣaprakṛtitaś ca// bhavataś cātra ślokau --- > Such is the manner of a courtezan living with a man like a wife, and set forth here for the sake of guidance from the rules of Dattaka. What is not laid down here should be practiced according to the custom of the people, and the nature of each individual man. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana > There are also two verses on the subject as follows: > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ### [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 ### [6.2.76](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2.76) kāmayante virajyante rañjayanti tyajanti ca/ karṣayantyo 'pi sarvārthāñ jñāyante naiva yoṣitaḥ// > "Women are hardly ever known in their true light, though they may love men, or become indifferent towards them; may give them delight, or abandon them; or may extract from them all the wealth that they may possess." > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.6.2.p2) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.36.1) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.6.2) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (4) - [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v3.c37.100) — P. V. Kane, English - [The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.altekar-1938.c9.31) — A. S. Altekar, English - [History of Sanskrit Poetics](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.kane-1951.c5.s1.t1.64) — P. V. Kane, English - [History of Tamil Language and Literature (Beginning to 1000 A.D.)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.vaiyapuri-pillai-1956.c10.s1.4) — S. Vaiyapuri Pillai, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.2) · Pramāṇa