The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.32
The Beginnings of Buddhist Art and Other Essays in Indian and Central-Asian Archaeology c11.s1.32
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19. (L., 38). The newly-wedded couple lead a life of pleasure in the midst of the gynæceum. According to the customary Indian and Javanese formula these delights are provided by a dancing girl, accompanied by an orchestra of musicians of both sexes. As Leemans has shrewdly remarked, the royal couple do not seem to pay great attention to these amusements : they do not, in fact, suffice to cure the prince of homesickness.