History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v4.c63.983

v4.c63.983

It has further to be noted that Yāj. II. 290 and Nār. (XV. 79)⁹⁸⁹ make it punishable to visit a dāsī kept by a man in his own house or outside and Yāj. prescribes the fine of 50 paṇas for so doing. Vide H. of Dh. vol. II. pp. 637-639 about prostitutes. But Manu VIII. 362 states that the rules making conversation with others' wives in lonely places punishable does not hold good in the case of the wives of actors, singers and those who live on the earnings of their wives, since they themselves introduce their wives to others and make them mix among men (while they themselves remain concealed).