The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c11.s1.17

c11.s1.17

It would therefore appear that by about 300 A. D. some royal families were beginning to think it desirable that their ladies should be seen only by the select few; when moving in public they should put on a veil. The royal example was being imitated by a few families in higher and fashionable society; in the *Mṛichchha-* *kaṭika* we find the courtesan Vasantsenā being offered a veil, when she was raised to the status of a respectable lady at the end of the drama.