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The second adhyaya tells about acquaintance with women and the efforts to gain them. At the beginning of this adhyaya Vatsyayana says- "Girls are not easily seduced by employing female messengers as by the efforts of the man himself; but the wives of theirs are more easily got at by the aid of female messengers than by 169 the personal efforts of the man. Therefore Upaharavarman takes the help of Puskarika as a messenger to 70 seduce Kalpasundari. With the help of a duti one should get acquainted with his beloved. As intimacy increases, he should place in her charge some kind of deposit. This is to show that he has full faith in 71 her. The Kamasutra gives this advice to a man. But Sudraka has applied it to a woman. Vasantasena, who 69. yatha kanya svayamabhiyogasadhya na tathadutya, parastriyastu suksmabhava dutisadhya na tatha ss tmanetyacaryah | ka . su . 5.2.1. 70. trtiya ucchvasa 71. - dasa . gya a ofeau azur zad furd faad a faquana int•¦�5.2.9. }

329 loves Carudatta, deposits her ornaments in the house of her lover. Further she expresses her full faith in him by saying that deposits are entrusted to persons and not to houses. 72