The World of Courtesans c8.214

c8.214

Though the courtesan naturally preferred to live with one lover, she was sometimes employed by a *goshthi* of the *vitas* and there she was known as *goshthiparigrihita*. This courtesan, who was employed by a number of persons (who observed no established rules) aroused a spirit of rivalry between them and this enabled her to extract money from each of them. She sent a message through her mother to a particular lover informing him that she would meet him on the day of the spring festival and thus kept him pleased.