Part 6: About Courtesans

It sometimes happens that while gains are being sought for, or expected to be realized, losses only are the result of our efforts. The causes of these

When a courtesan is able to realize much money every day, by reason of many customers, she should not confine herself to a single lover;

When a courtesan abandons her present lover after all his wealth is exhausted, she may then consider about her reunion with a former lover.

Of the means of getting money, of the signs of the change of a lover’s feelings, and of the way to get rid of him. Money is got out of a lover in

When a courtesan is living as a wife with her lover, she should behave like a chaste woman, and do everything to his satisfaction. Her duty in this respect

Of the causes of a courtesan resorting to men; of the means of attaching to herself the man desired; and of the kind of man that it is desirable to be

This Part 6, about courtesans, was prepared by Vatsyayana from a treatise on the subject that was written by Dattaka, for the women of Pataliputra (the