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# Kamasutra 6.5.35

Kāmasūtra 6.5.35

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.5.35](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.5.35)

tyakṣyāmy enam anyataḥ pratisaṃdhāsyāmi, gamiṣyati dārair yokṣyate nāśayiṣyaty anarthān, aṅkuśabhūta uttarādhyakṣo 'syāgamiṣyati svāmī pitā vā, sthānabhraṃśo vāsya bhaviṣyati calacittaś ceti manyamānā tadātve tasmāl lābham icchet//

> When a courtezan intends to abandon a particular lover, and take up with another one; or when she has reason to believe that her lover will shortly leave her, and return to his wives; or that having squandered all his money, and become penniless, his guardian, or master, or father would come and take him away; or that her lover is about to lose his position, or lastly, that he is of a very fickle mind, she should, under any of these circumstances, endeavour to get as much money as she can from him as soon as possible.  
> — 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.6.5.p16) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.39.30) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.6.5.35) — Sanskrit

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