The World of Courtesans c10.246

c10.246

"How am I not a *vita*? If that is so, then you are the head of the *vitas* by unanimous consent. Now sit down—What did you say?—That Madanasena should be made to expiate? Well I' shall announce it. Why does this poet from the Shibi country breathe so hard and call to me?—Well, this is not the right kind of expiation. This fellow is a real *vita* because he visits the Vedic scholars and sells his poems for a cup of wine; the fellow was born in the Shibi country and grew old in Multan."