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The World of Courtesans c8.85

The World of Courtesans c8.85

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c8.85

The knowledge of the arts enumerated above naturally added much to the fame of a cultured person, though it is problematic whether a person, howsoever resourceful he might have been, could acquire even a part of this vast store of different arts. However, some of these arts served as a kind of stock-in-trade of the courtesan. In the words of Vatsyayana: