The World of Courtesans c4.24

c4.24

Once while the daughters of Hutasana were playing in the Manasa lake, Narada came there by accident. The girls, without even a polite salutation, asked him how they could win Narayana as their husband. Narada, as the spokesman of the Brahmans, replied that they could obtain their heart's desire by giving away a couple of beds with gold furnishings on the twelfth day of the second half of the two spring months. But in revenge for their discourtesy, he placed a curse upon them that they would be raped and forced to take to prostitution. Krishna's wives were Hutasana's daughters in their former birth.