[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) › 7.1.24 # Kamasutra 7.1.24 Kāmasūtra 7.1.24 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.7.1.24) tasmai tu tāṃ dadyur ya eṣāṃ \*tūryaviśiṣṭam upakuryāt/ iti subhagaṃ karaṇam/ (ekonaṣaṣṭitamaṃ prakaraṇam//) > Thus end the ways of making oneself lovely in the eyes of others. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana > Such is the mode of temporary marriage among courtezans, and of increasing their loveliness, and their value in the eyes of others. What has been said about them should also be understood to apply to the daughters of dancing women, whose mothers should give them only to such persons as are likely to become useful to them in various ways. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 7.1.23](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.7.1.23) - [Next: 7.1.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.7.1.25) - [Up: 7.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.7.1) ## Translations (1) - [The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana~en-burton.7.1.p9) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.7.1.24) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.7.1.24](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.7.1.24) · Pramāṇa