Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jataka Stories c4.t2.349
Pre-Buddhist India: A Political, Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey of Ancient India Based Mainly on the Jātaka Stories c4.t2.349
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c4.t2.349
He is always surrounded by maids.¹ He tames birds and beasts in his palace and gives rewards to them who bring these presents.² Music and drama flourished high under the royal patronage. A king in order to attract his son to the pleasures of the world proposes to have dramas enacted before him. The prince, bathed in perfumed water, is brought into a beautiful inner chamber filled with a mingled fragrance of perfumed wreaths, incense, unguents and spirituous liquor. Gracious women come and try to amuse him with dance and music.³