Kamasutra book

Thus ends, in seven parts, the Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana, which might otherwise be called a treatise on men and women, their mutual relationship, and connection

If a man is unable to satisfy a Hastini, or Elephant woman, he should have recourse to various means to excite her passion. At the commencement he should

Wnen a person fails to obtain the object of his desires by any of the ways previously related, he should then have recourse to other ways of attracting

It sometimes happens that while gains are being sought for, or expected to be realized, losses only are the result of our efforts. The causes of these

When a courtesan is able to realize much money every day, by reason of many customers, she should not confine herself to a single lover;

When a courtesan abandons her present lover after all his wealth is exhausted, she may then consider about her reunion with a former lover.

Of the means of getting money, of the signs of the change of a lover’s feelings, and of the way to get rid of him. Money is got out of a lover in

When a courtesan is living as a wife with her lover, she should behave like a chaste woman, and do everything to his satisfaction. Her duty in this respect

Of the causes of a courtesan resorting to men; of the means of attaching to herself the man desired; and of the kind of man that it is desirable to be

This Part 6, about courtesans, was prepared by Vatsyayana from a treatise on the subject that was written by Dattaka, for the women of Pataliputra (the