Vatsyayana Kama Sutra Chapter 5 : About the kinds of women resorted to

The Kamasutra, states the Indologist and Sanskrit literature scholar Ludo Rocher, discourages adultery but then devotes “not less than fifteen sutras (1.5.6–20) to enumerating the reasons (karana) for which a man is allowed to seduce a married woman”. Vatsyayana mentions different types of nayikas (urban girls) such as unmarried virgins, those married and abandoned by husband, widow seeking remarriage and courtesans, then discusses their kama/sexual education, rights and mores. In childhood, Vātsyāyana says, a person should learn how to make a living; youth is the time for pleasure, and as years pass, one should concentrate on living virtuously and hope to escape the cycle of rebirth.

According to Doniger, the Kamasutra teaches adulterous sexual liaison as a means for a man to predispose the involved woman in assisting him, as a strategic means to work against his enemies and to facilitate his successes. It also explains the signs and reasons a woman wants to enter into an adulterous relationship and when she does not want to commit adultery. The Kamasutra teaches strategies to engage in adulterous relationships, but concludes its chapter on sexual liaison stating that one should not commit adultery because adultery pleases only one of two sides in a marriage, hurts the other, it goes against both dharma and artha

The Kamasutra has been one of the unique sources of sociological information and cultural milieu of ancient India. It shows a “near total disregard of class (varna) and caste (jati)”, states Doniger. Human relationships, including the sexual type, are neither segregated nor repressed by gender or caste, rather linked to individual’s wealth (success in artha). In the pages of the Kamasutra, lovers are “not upper-class” but they “must be rich” enough to dress well, pursue social leisure activities, buy gifts and surprise the lover. In the rare mention of caste found in the text, it is about a man finding his legal wife and the advice that humorous stories to seduce a woman should be about “other virgins of same jati (caste)”. In general, the text describes sexual activity between men and women across class and caste, both in urban and rural setting

This Chapter V of PART 1 talks about Types of women, finding sexual partners, sex, being lovers, being faithful, permissible women, adultery and when to commit it, the forbidden women who one must avoid, discretion with messengers and helpers, few dos and don’t in life.. & About the kinds of women resorted to by the citizens, and of friends and messengers

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WHEN Kama is practised by men of the four castes according to the rules of the Holy Writ (i.e.