The World of Courtesans c4.31

c4.31

The yearnings of a Bahlika chief (living in Kurujangala) for the woman he had left in his country are mentioned in the *Mahabharata*. She is described as very fair and clad in a long, fine, woollen garment. He longed to return to his land and see women with high cheek-bones, who had the corners of their eyes lengthened with realgar and their eyes stained with collyrium. Clad in deerskins these beautiful girls leapt in dancing, and ate balls of parched barley meal with butter milk (*M.B.* VIII. 30.1-24).