The World of Courtesans c5.18

c5.18

In that house of ill-fame (*gaṇikāghara*), the custom was that of every one thousand received, four hundred went to the courtesan and five hundred was spent on clothes, perfumes and garlands It was also the custom that the clients who visited that house received garments to wear (when they stayed the night there) which they took off when they left. Kali's lover, out of sheer generosity, put on the clothes received from the house and gave away his own to Tundila. Kali felt insulted. The next day when her lover asked for his clothes, Kali ordered her servants to eject him from the house and he had to return to his home naked and humiliated.