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consequently very much astonished at this
reply. After a while she thought that the
beautiful young man was poor, and this time
she sent her servant with the following mes-
sage:—Tell him that Vasavadatta desires love,
not gold and pearls.” The servant returned
again with the same enigmatic answer,
“The time has not yet arrived when the
disciple Upagupata will visit the courtesan
Vasavadatta !”
A few months after this, Vasavadatta had a
love intrigue with a rich man of Mathura, ‘the
head of the artisans.’ They continued in their
love affair for sometime, while a wealthy mer-
chant arrived at the city with five hundred
horses that he wanted to sell. Hearing of the
charms of the famous courtesan the rich mer-
chant was enamoured of her love and tried to
be her sole favourite. The wealth of the mer-
chant was too much for the unprincipled wo-
man, and she assassinated her former lover,
‘the head of the artisans,’ and had his corpse
thrown over a dung-heap. The relations of
consequently very much astonished at this
reply. After a while she thought that the
beautiful young man was poor, and this time
she sent her servant with the following mes-
sage:—Tell him that Vasavadatta desires love,
not gold and pearls.” The servant returned
again with the same enigmatic answer,
“The time has not yet arrived when the
disciple Upagupata will visit the courtesan
Vasavadatta !”
A few months after this, Vasavadatta had a
love intrigue with a rich man of Mathura, ‘the
head of the artisans.’ They continued in their
love affair for sometime, while a wealthy mer-
chant arrived at the city with five hundred
horses that he wanted to sell. Hearing of the
charms of the famous courtesan the rich mer-
chant was enamoured of her love and tried to
be her sole favourite. The wealth of the mer-
chant was too much for the unprincipled wo-
man, and she assassinated her former lover,
‘the head of the artisans,’ and had his corpse
thrown over a dung-heap. The relations of