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# Kamasutra 6.3.44

Kāmasūtra 6.3.44

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.44](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.3.44)

āgate cādarśanam/ ayācyayācanam/ ante svayaṃ mokṣaś ceti parigrahakasyeti dattakasya// bhavataś cātra ślokau ---

> 26th. Taking care not to look at him when he comes to her.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> 27th. Asking from him what cannot be granted.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> 28th. And, after all, finally dismissing him.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> There are also two verses on this subject as follows:  
> — 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.6.3.p71) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.37.44) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.6.3.44) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [History of Sanskrit Poetics](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.kane-1951.c5.s1.t1.64) — P. V. Kane, English

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