The World of Courtesans c5.10

c5.10

In another *Jataka*, a courtesan (*vannadasi*) is said to have received a thousand pieces from a youth who only visited her once and then disappeared. She, for honour's sake, did not accept new clients and gradually became poor. Unable to bear her poverty any longer, she went to the Chief Justice to seek his advice and was told to return to her former profession.