The World of Courtesans c4.20

c4.20

judicial, commercial and political business, and reception of courtly, well-born, wealthy persons and kings; and the complexity of the structure must have been greater where the same building was used for the other 'sabha'-ic functions,—gambling, merriment, social intercourse, debates and contests Probably when the social and festive branch of the 'sabha' became separated it merged with the natural clan-gatherings at the 'gostha,' and led to the formation of the later 'gosthi,' whose functions were pre-eminently social and pleasurable.