Kama Sutra

Kama Sutra
● TRANSLATOR'S
NOTES
- Preface
- Introduction
● PART I:
INTRODUCTORY
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
● PART II: ON SEXUAL
UNION
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX
- Chapter X
● PART III: ABOUT THE
ACQUISITION OF A
WIFE
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
● PART IV: ABOUT A
WIFE
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
● PART V: ABOUT THE
WIVES OF OTHER
PEOPLE
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
● PART VI: ABOUT
COURTESANS
- Introductory Remarks -
Chapter I
- Chapter II
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI
● PART VII: ON THE
MEANS OF ATTRACTING
OTHERS TO ONE'S SELF
- Chapter I
- Chapter II
● CONCLUDING
REMARKS
● MODERN KAMA
SUTRA
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PART VI
CHAPTER IV
About a Reunion with a former 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. But she should
return to him only if he has acquired fresh wealth, or is still wealthy, and if he is
still attached to her. And if this man be living at the time with some other
woman she should consider well before she acts.
Now such a man can only be in one of the six following conditions:
● He may have left the first woman of his own accord, and may even have left
another woman since then.
● He may have been driven away from both women.
● He may have left the one woman of her own accord, and been driven away
by the other.
● He may have left the one woman of his own accord, and be living with
another woman.
● He may have been driven away from the one woman, and left the other of his
own accord.
● He may have been driven away by the one woman, and may be living with
another.
Now if the man has left both women of his own accord, he should not be
resorted to, on account of the fickleness of his mind, and his indifference to the
excellences of both of them. As regards the man who may have been driven
away from both women, if he has been driven away from the last one because
the woman could get more money from some other man, then he should be
resorted to, for if attached to the first woman he would give her more money,
through vanity and emulation to spite the other woman. But if he has been
driven away by the woman on account of his poverty, or stinginess, he should
not then be resorted to.
In the case of the man who may have left the one woman of his own accord,
and been driven away by the other, if he agrees to return to the former and
give her plenty of money beforehand, then he should be resorted to.
In the case of the man who may have left the one woman of his own accord,
and be living with another woman, the former (wishing to take up with him
again) should first ascertain if he left her in the first instance in the hope of
finding some particular excellence in the other woman, and that not having
found any such excellence, he was willing to come back to her, and to give her
much money on account of his conduct, and on account of his affection still
existing for her.
Or, whether, having discovered many faults in the other woman, he would now
see even more excellences in herself than actually exist, and would be prepared
to give her much money for these qualities.
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