The World of Courtesans
Courtesans (gaṇikā, veśyā) and urban pleasure culture from Vedic to medieval times, from Kāmasūtra, drama, kāvya, Jātakas and Jain texts.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Moti Chandra
- Extent
- 1,231 passages, 107,099 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Vikas Publishing House, Delhi 1973; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections by… · In copyright (Moti Chandra †1981); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 8 parts
- c2 Contents — 2 parts
- c3 Preface — 5 parts
- c4 1 Courtesans in Vedic, Pauranic and Smriti Literatures — 62 parts
- c5 2 Courtesans in Buddhist Literature — 53 parts
- c6 3 Courtesans in Jain Literature — 86 parts
- c7 4 Courtesans in the Mauryan Period — 56 parts
- c8 5 Courtesans in the Kamasutra and the Natyashastra — 274 parts
- c9 6 Courtesans in the Gupta Period — 102 parts
- c10 7 Courtesans and Goshthi in Sanskrit Drama — 266 parts
- c11 8 Courtesans in Mediaeval Kashmir — 160 parts
- c12 9 Courtesans in Mediaeval Times in Other Parts of India — 96 parts
- c13 10 Courtesans in South India — 61 parts