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# Kamasutra 6.6.53

Kāmasūtra 6.6.53

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.6.53](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.6.53)

santi rāgaparā nāryaḥ santi cārthaparā api/  
prāk tatra varṇito rāgo veśyāyogāś ca vaiśike//

> "There are some women who seek for love, and there are others who seek for money; for the former the ways of love are told in previous portions of this work, while the ways of getting money, as practiced by courtezans, are described in this Part."  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

### [6.6.53.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.6.6.53.p1)

7. aupaniṣadikaṃ

> END OF PART VI.  
> — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana

## Translations (1)

- [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.6.6.p83) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English

## Commentaries (1)

- [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.40.57) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.6.6.53) — Sanskrit

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