The World of Courtesans c11.157

c11.157

The Fourth Chapter of the *Kalavilasa* (IV. 1-40) describes the arts of the courtesans in detail. It embraces sixty-four categories including proper manners in *vesha*, music and dancing, casting side glances, a deep knowledge of sex, of the wiles that can ensure a lover; the knack of double crossing a friend, drinking, love-making, embracing, kissing, shamelessness, flurry, confusion, jealousy, weeping, giving up sulking, simulating death, sweating, agitation, trembling, closing one's eyes, ceasing all movement, separation, show of unbearable affection, giving up of anger, show of a quarrel with the bawd, waiting to go to a prosperous house, scratching, stealing, talking of one's own deficiencies, simulating pain, anointing the body, simulating the menstruation cycle, coarseness, flattery of a lover who had once been thrown out but has again earned money, trips to gardens and the *tirthas*, management of the household, horticulture, hair-dyeing, devotion to monks and hermits, trips to other districts, foreign lands, harlotry etc.