[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) › c7.18 # The World of Courtesans c7.18 The World of Courtesans c7.18 - **Language:** English ### [c7.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c7.18) As the degree of beauty and artistic accomplishment governed the income of the \*ganikas\*, the state made arrangements for their instruction in the various arts: \*Ganikas\*, \*dasis\*, and actresses were taught singing, instrumental music, recitation, dancing, acting, writing, painting, playing on the \*vina\*, the pipe, and the drum, thought-reading, manufacture of scents and garlands, shampooing, and skills in the arts of prostitutes. The list of the arts in which the courtesans were trained by state-employed teachers crystallized at a later period into the sixty-four arts, and proficiency in these was considered desirable. - [Previous: c7.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c7.17) - [Next: c7.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c7.19) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c7.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c7.18) · Pramāṇa