[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The World of Courtesans](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973) › c10.167 # The World of Courtesans c10.167 The World of Courtesans c10.167 - **Language:** English ### [c10.167](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.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. - [Previous: c10.166](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c10.166) - [Next: c10.168](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c10.168) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c10.167](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c10.167) · Pramāṇa