History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.782

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Certain rules are laid down in Nār. IX. 18, Yāj. II. 292 and Matsyapurāṇa 227. 144–146 about the monetary liabilities of prostitutes and persons visiting them. Vide H. of Dh. vol. II. pp. 638–39 above. The Matsyapurāṇa (227. 144–146) states that a brāhmaṇa who visits a prostitute should be fined as many paṇas as he paid to her, that if a prostitute after receiving her fee does not receive the visitor and goes elsewhere she should be made to pay to the visitor double of the fee and a similar sum as fine to the king, and that if one, after telling a prostitute that she is to visit a certain person, takes her to a different person, he should be fined one gold māṣaka.