[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) › c8.159 # The World of Courtesans c8.159 The World of Courtesans c8.159 - **Language:** English ### [c8.159](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c8.159) The good housewife was expected to avoid the company of Buddhist and Jain nuns, unchaste women, magicians, astrologers and suppliers of charms (\*mulakarika\*). She was very particular about the food that she served her husband. As she heard his voice outside, she came running to the courtyard to serve him. She brushed aside the maid and she herself washed his feet and did not appear in his presence without finishing her toilet. If he was lavish in his expenditure, she advised him in private to desist from such profligacy. She was very careful to avoid any suspicion. So she never attended weddings of relatives nor did she visit the homes of either the bride or the bridegroom without her husband's consent. She avoided meetings with her friends at the temple. She retired to bed after her husband had gone to sleep and she got up before him. She kept the kitchen clean and well lit and did not allow outsiders to enter it. Even if her lord committed an act of indiscretion she did not revile him. She was very polite when he sat in the company of his friends. She avoided sulking or giving unwise counsel. She avoided talking to him with her face averted or standing at the door of the house or conversing with somebody in the garden or staying alone to some obscure corner of the house. - [Previous: c8.158](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c8.158) - [Next: c8.160](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c8.160) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c8.159](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.chandra-1973.c8.159) · Pramāṇa