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Going to Gardens or Picnics
In the forenoon, men having dressed themselves should go to gardens on horseback, accompanied
by public women and followed by servants. And having done there all the duties of the day, and
passed the time in various agreeable diversions, such as the fighting of quails, cocks and rams, and
other spectacles, they should return home in the afternoon in the same manner, bringing with them
bunches of flowers, etc.
The same also applies to bathing in summer in water from which wicked or dangerous animals have
previously been taken out, and which has been built in on all sides.
Other Social Diversions
Spending nights playing with dice. Going out on moonlight nights. Keeping the festive day in
honour of spring. Plucking the sprouts and fruits of the mango trees. Eating the fibres of lotuses.
Eating the tender ears of corn. Picnicing in the forests when the trees get their new foliage. The
Udakakashvedika or sporting in the water. Decorating each other with the flowers of some trees.
Pelting each other with the flowers of the Kadamba tree, and many other sports which may either be
known to the whole country, or may be peculiar to particular parts of it. These and similar other
amusements should always be carried on by citizens.
The above amusements should be followed by a person who diverts himself alone in company with
a courtesan, as well as by a courtesan who can do the same in company with her maid servants or
with citizens.
A Pithamarda14 is a man without wealth, alone in the world, whose only property consists of his
Mallika, 15 some lathering substance and a red cloth, who comes from a good country, and who is
skilled in all the arts; and by teaching these arts is received in the company of citizens, and in the
abode of public women.
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