[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) › c4.32 # The World of Courtesans c4.32 The World of Courtesans c4.32 - **Language:** English ### [c4.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.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). - [Previous: c4.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c4.31) - [Next: c4.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c4.33) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c4) ## Linked texts (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c4.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c4.32) · Pramāṇa