The World of Courtesans c4.32

c4.32

The overall picture of the moral failings of the Madras is further enlarged by another Brahman from the Kuru-jangala country. He describes the orgies of the Madras of Shakala. On every fourteenth of the dark half of the month, drums were struck and symposial hymns (*ghoshika-gatha*) sung. The participants ate pork, beef, mutton, fowl, and even the flesh of a donkey of a camel They drank grape wine in the company of fair women wearing woollen wrappers, and throwing off their clothes they danced (*M.B.* VII. 30, 27-33).