[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) › c11.18 # The World of Courtesans c11.18 The World of Courtesans c11.18 - **Language:** English ### [c11.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c11.18) Vikarala relates to her the strategem that need to be employed to captivate a lover. She advises her first to turn her attention to Chintamani. She tells her he was a government servant and a man of independent means. Then she goes on to describe the general appearance of Chintamani. He wore a thick topknot and his falling hair measured five \*angulas\*. He wore \*kankatika\* in his earlobes, rings on his fingers and a gold chain. His clothes were pale yellow—the result of saffron applied to his body. He wore a heavy garland and necklaces. His footwear was shod with horseshoes and smeared with bees-wax and olibanum. His hair net was made of multi-coloured lace. In one of his ears he wore a heart-shaped earring (\*dalavitakam\*) and in the other a leaf-shaped one (\*shisapatrakam\*). He wore a brocaded \*dhoti\* coloured yellow with saffron. As he walked he was followed by a betel-tray bearer who carried a conch and a drum and whose nails were dyed red. - [Previous: c11.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c11.17) - [Next: c11.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c11.19) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c11.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c11.18) · Pramāṇa