The World of Courtesans c8.251

c8.251

Bharata, like Vatsyayana, has explored many aspects of love. He gives his own estimate of how love arose in the superior, the middle and the inferior kind of women. Love grew through the hearing of kind words, through blandishments and through accomplishments in various arts and crafts. The signs of love manifested themselves in tearful eyes, coquettish glances, passionate speech The face was dotted with beads of perspiration and the hair on the body stood on end.