Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c15.s3.6

c15.s3.6

For grown-up people there were public gardens where people clad in nice dress, went hand in hand with their lovers for merry-making They left their homes in the morning and spending the whole day in the open air returned in the evening. Reference has been made to two merchants of Campā who went for a picnic in the company of a courtesan¹⁵¹ There were special parks for the kings.¹⁵² Then people went for picnics to a river (*nadī*), pond (*sara* or *taḍāga*), tree (*rukkha*),¹⁵³ shrine (*ceiya*) and mountain (*giri*).¹⁵⁴