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youth). Bring to me utpalakushta (costus reciosus), tagara powder (tabernaemontana coronaria) and aloes powdered with fragrant ushira (andropogon muricatus), oil for anointing and bamboo baskets to put my things in. Reach me the lip solve (nandicunnagaim). Fetch the umbrella and slippers, the knife to cut the thread, get my robes dyed blue. Give me the pot to coock the vegetables in and another to bring water in. Give me the stick with which I paint the mark on the forehead (tilakakaraṇimañjana salgam), the pin to apply collyrium to the eyes and the fan that I use when it is hot. Fetch me the pincers (samdāsagam) to pick the hair in my nose. Get me a comb and a ribbon to bind the hair. Reach me the looking glass; put the toothbrush near me. Fetch me the arccaunt and betel, my needle and some thread the winnowing basket and the pot for lignelying natron. Give me the vessel (for worshipping the gods) and the other water-pots. Friend, dig a privy. Buy a beaker, a drum and a ball of cloth (celagolam) for the boy to play with. Shramana, the rainy season is at hand, look after the house and stores. Fetch the chair with woven twine (āsandiyam) and wooden shoes to walk in.”
The necessary corollaries of prostitution in ancient India were musical soirees, clubs and pleasure trips or even religious festivals in which prortitutes and other malefactors formed a part of the crowd. One such important occasion was samkhadi, which is equivalent to the samajjas of Buddhist literature. It is mentioned in one of the sutras of Brahat kalpa sūtra Bhāsya, which shows that it was a fairly ancient institution. The word is derived from sam,''in large groups, and khada, “killing", i.e. the festival in which animals were slaughtered in large numbers. The samkhadi was held in the early part of the day or after sunset. It is said that a samkhadi was held near the tank Rishi Tadaga situated at Tosali (Orissa). During a pilgrimage to kindalamentha (situated in a deep forest) the people living in the neighbour-hood of Bharukaccha performed a samkhadi, and it formed a part of the ceremonies of the pilgrimage to Arbuda (Abu) or Prabhāsa. The People of the Anandapura performed samakhadi every winter at a spot called Prācinavaha where the direction of the river Saraswati changed to the east. The samkhadiwas not confined to only a particular religion or sect since the Buddhist, Shaiva and Bhagavat monks
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| SR No. | 524614 |
| Book Title | Tulsi Prajna 2003 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Shanta Jain, Jagatram Bhattacharya |
| Publisher | Jain Vishva Bharati |
| Publication Year | 2003 |
| Total Pages | 122 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Tulsi Prajna, & India |
| File Size | 6 MB |