[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) › 6.4.40 # Kamasutra 6.4.40 Kāmasūtra 6.4.40 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.4.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.4.40) asaktam abhinandeta saktaṃ paribhavet tathā/ anyadūtānupāte ca yaḥ syād ativiśāradaḥ// > "A courtezan should be agreeable to the man who is attached to her, and despise the man who does not care for her. If while she is living with one man, a messenger comes to her from some other man, she may either refuse to listen to any negotiations on his part, or appoint a fixed time for him to visit her, but she should not leave the man who may be living with her and who may be attached to her." > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 6.4.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.4.39) - [Next: 6.4.41](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.4.41) - [Up: 6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.4) ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.6.4.p35) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.38.41) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.6.4.40) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.4.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.4.40) · Pramāṇa