Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v1.c9.5

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The vecyā or strumpets are in the Epic, as elsewhere in Indian literature, an important part of the life of the city. When the great fight is to burst forth, and the armies are there fully equipped, Yudhishṭhira, the pious one, sends into the royal city, among many other more or less tender greetings, one, too, to these granters of delight: “My dear friend, ask after the welfare of the fair-decked, fair-clad, scented, pleasing,