The World of Courtesans c8.91

c8.91

Vatsyayana also gives interesting details about the daily routine of the *nagaraka*. He got up early in the morning, washed, brushed his teeth with a twig, had his bath and finally performed his religious rites. After applying perfumes lightly to his body and fumigating himself with *agara* wood etc., he put a garland on his topknot, and applied lacdye to his lips, fixing it with wax. Then he looked at his face in the mirror and after eating betel leaves and perfumed pills started on his daily round of work.