The World of Courtesans c10.167

c10.167

Hearing these words of encouragement from Madhava Madanasena smilingly retired to her bed. In the morning Madhava reached the council of the Brahmans (*Brahmana-pithika*) and found Vishnunaga already there beseeching the council to prescribe an expiation for him whose head had been touched by a courtesan's feet. The Brahmans, though highly learned in the scriptures, were unable to prescribe any expiatory rite for such a sin Then Vishnunaga cried out and beseeched them to help him. He belonged to a good family, he was a pandit, a high official and certainly not an untouchable, and had to be saved.