Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.17

c6.17

Then the picture gallery (*chitta-sabhā*) of a courtezan who also seems to have been a psychologist is mentioned.⁹ The story runs that there was a courtezan well versed in the traditional sixty-four arts who had a picture gallery in which she had the portraits of all classes of men engaged in different professions appropriate to their respective castes and in different states of anger and appeasement. If any one came to engage her services she asked him first to visit her picture gallery so that she could judge from his reactions his caste, his taste in arts, and handicrafts the wickedness and strength of his character, so that she could behave with him accordingly.