Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra c8.s4.23
Social Life in Ancient India: Studies in Vātsyāyana's Kāmasūtra c8.s4.23
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c8.s4.23
After the midday meal the *nāgaraka* enjoys his siesta, he diverts himself by pleasant talk with his friends, the *pīthamarda*, the *viṭa* or the *vidūṣaka*, listens to the talk of parrots, views fights between cocks, quails or rams, or is engaged in various kinds of artistic enjoyments. Besides the animals mentioned above, he also kept for his own amusement a number of cuckoos for their sweet melody and peacocks for their glorious plumage and also monkeys. At the king's palace, besides these animals of sport, lions and tigers were also kept in cages.²