History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.783

v4.c63.783

The Matsyapurāṇa (227.147) further states that a visitor who has had sexual intercourse with a prostitute and yet has not paid her fee should be made to pay double the (agreed) fee to her and a similar sum as fine to the king. Nārada provides that the chief prostitutes and the voluptuaries that stay with them should help in deciding monetary disputes in which prostitutes are concerned⁸⁴⁰ (q. in Sm. C. II. p. 206 and others). Nār. (IX. 18-19) prescribes the payment of eight times the fee and a similar fine in the case contemplated in Matsya 227. 147.