The World of Courtesans c5.54

c5.54

The *goshthikas'* love of fine garments, music and their revelry is emphasized in another place in the *Avadanasataka*. It is said that a crowd of revellers (*goshthikas*) who were intoxicated kept on singing and dancing to the accompaniment of musical instruments. While they were going out of Shravasti they met the Buddha. Their association with prostitutes is not mentioned here, but according to the *Mahavastu* iii. 35-38 a banker's son (who was probably a *goshthika*) used to live in the company of prostitutes.