[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) › c11.157 # The World of Courtesans c11.157 The World of Courtesans c11.157 - **Language:** English ### [c11.157](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.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. - [Previous: c11.156](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c11.156) - [Next: c11.158](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c11.158) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c11) ## Cites (1) - [Kalāvilāsa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.satire.kalavilasa.4.1) — Kṣemendra, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c11.157](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c11.157) · Pramāṇa