The World of Courtesans c9.25

c9.25

This potent stuff went to his head and in that drunken stupor he heard the voice of a woman and followed the voice to a bower. The woman told him that she was Yakshini Gangadatta and if he refused to accept her, that would be his end. He accompanied Gangadatta to her home. She was in fact a courtesan. There he was welcomed by another woman who gave him lotus wine (*pushkara-madhu*). In a drunken state he returned to his friends with Gangadatta and they all laughed at him