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# Kamasutra 6.6.22

Kāmasūtra 6.6.22

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.6.22](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.6.22)

niṣpīḍitārtham aphalam utsṛjantyā artham alabhamānāyā dharmaḥ syān na veti dharmasaṃśayaḥ/

> (b) When a courtezan feels doubtful whether she is right in entirely abandoning a lover from whom she is unable to get money, she having taken all his wealth from him in the first instance, this doubt is called a doubt about religious merit.  
> — 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.6.6.p37) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.40.21) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.6.6.22) — Sanskrit

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