Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c7.s4.82

c7.s4.82

² Compare Amir Khusrau’s description of a lustful wench in I.K., 88-9; compare P.P., 146, how harlots were ‘the highest treasures of passion in the eyes of cunning husbands’. Compare Malik Muhammad Jaisi’s description of the mart of public women of Simhala who sat in the balconies ‘to bewitch the people by their various accomplishments’. Vide P., 57. For the South, compare the account of Nicolo Conti who finds every street of a town full of courtesans who enticed men ‘with perfumes and soft annointments and tender age’. Vide Frampton, 137-8.