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# Kamasutra 6.6.26

Kāmasūtra 6.6.26

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.6.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.6.26)

rāgasyāpi vivakṣāyām abhipretam anupalabhya virāgaḥ/ syān na veti dveṣasaṃśayaḥ/ iti śuddhasaṃśayāḥ//

> (f) When a courtezan is uncertain as to whether she might create disaffection by speaking out, and revealing her love, and thus not get her desire satisfied, this is called a doubt about the loss of pleasure.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

> Thus end the remarks on doubts.  
> — 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.p41) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.40.25) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.6.6.26) — Sanskrit

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