The Kural or the Maxims of Tiruvalluvar/Chapter 92
CHAPTER 92
PROSTITUTES
911. Behold the women that desire a man for the sake of his gold and not for the sake of love : their cajoleries will lead only to misery.
912. Behold the women who speak honeyed words, but whose thoughts are ever fixed on their own profit : consider their ways and keep them at a distance.
913. The prostitute pretendeth love when she embraceth her lover : but in her heart she feeleth even as one who hath touched a stranger dead body in a dark room.
914. Behold the men whose hearts are inclined to deeds of purity: they defile themselves not with the touch of harlots.
915. Behold the men who add deep study to a clear understanding: they defile themselves not with the touch of women whose charms are free to all.
916. Behold the men that have a regard for their own good : they touch not the hand of wantons who put up their lewd charms for sale.
917. Behold the men who are light-minded: they will seek the women who embrace with the body while their heart is somewhere else.
918. Behold the men who have not a discriminating understanding : the embraces of wily women are to them even as the fascination of the siren of the solitudes.[1]
919. The soft arms of the well-decked harlot are the filthy ditch wherein contemptible fools drown themselves.
920. Women of two hearts, drink, and the dice-table, these are the delights of men when fortune forsaketh them.
- ↑ An imaginary being that is believed to fascinate men in groves etc. and make them extremely erotic.