[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) › 7.1.28 # Kamasutra 7.1.28 Kāmasūtra 7.1.28 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [7.1.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.7.1.28) vajrasnuhīgaṇḍakāni khaṇḍaśaḥ kṛtāni manaḥśilāgandhapāṣāṇacūrṇenābhyajya saptakṛtvaḥ śoṣitāni cūrṇayitvā madhunā liptaliṅgasya saṃprayogo vaśīkaraṇam/ > (e) If a man cuts into small pieces the sprouts of the vajnasunhi plant, and dips them into a mixture of red arsenic and sulphur, and then dries them seven times, and applies this powder mixed with honey to his lingam, he can subjugate a woman to his will directly that he has had sexual union with her, or, if, by burning these very sprouts at night and looking at the smoke, he sees a golden moon behind, he will then be successful with any woman; or if he throws some of the powder of these same sprouts mixed with the excrement of a monkey upon a maiden, she will not be given in marriage to any body else. > — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana - [Previous: 7.1.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.7.1.27) - [Next: 7.1.29](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.7.1.29) - [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.p14) — Richard Francis Burton & Foster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot 1883, English ## Commentaries (1) - [Jayamaṅgalā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana!jayamangala.41.28) — Yaśodhara Indrapada, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Text edited by Jean Fezas (with notes)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana*fezas.7.1.28) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.7.1.28](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.kama.vatsyayana.7.1.28) · Pramāṇa