The World of Courtesans c4.47

c4.47

But the lawgivers did not all denounce the courtesans and prostitutes. They had to recognize their social status and provide them a certain degree of security. *Yaj.* II. 290 classifies concubines into two categories—*avaruddha* (one who is kept in the house and forbidden to have intercourse with any other male) and *bhujishya* (one who is not kept in the house but elsewhere and is in the special keeping of a person). If any other person had intercourse with them, he was to be fined fifty panas.