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# Kamasutra 6.4.22

Kāmasūtra 6.4.22

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.4.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.4.22)

teṣu upajapatsv anyatra sthitaḥ svayam upajapet//

> (6) In the case of the man who may have been driven away by one woman, and be living with another, if the man makes overtures to return to the first one, the courtezan should consider well before she acts, and while the other woman is engaged in attracting him to herself, she should try in her turn (though keeping herself behind the scenes) to gain him over, on the grounds of any of the following considerations, viz.:  
> — 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.6.4.p17) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.38.23) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.6.4.22) — Sanskrit

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