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where they sell t@ri [toddy] are opened. .... The king derives 
from the tax which he places on the tari a very considerable 
revenue, and it is principally on this account that they allow 
so many public women, because they are the cause of the 
consumption of much éari, those who sell it having for this 
reason, their shops in their neighbourhood. These women have 
so much suppleness and are so agile that when the king who 
reigns at present wished to visit Masulipatam, nine of them 
very cleverly represented the form of an elephant, four mak- 
ing the four feet, four others the body, and one the trunk, 
and the king mounted above on a kind of throne, in that way 
made his entry into the town.” (‘ Travels,’ ed. Ball, I, 157-8).' 
** Publick Women,” says Thevenot, “ are allowed in the 
of 1687, Pt. III, p. 97.) 
anucci tells a story (which is too long to quote in his own 
words), of a Musalman from Persia who on being wantonly 
insulted by a Hindu, gave him a slap. The Hindus then 
dant of the Prophet....... He was told to be patient, and in 
due time punishment would be inflicted, for the little respect 
paid by the tyrant to the chosen of God.” Irvine, ‘ Storia 
do Mogor,’ Trans. IIT, 131-2. 
The following dicta from the ‘ Fatawa-i-Alamgiri,’ a 
drinking shops in that place, an e rulers had always been addicted 
to pleasure and to all sorts of debaucherry. ii-l-Hasan exceeded all 
his predecessors in his devotion to pleasure. So the city got an evil 
name for licentiousness. After the conquest by Aurangzeb, it was called 
the hostile country (daru-l-jihad).” 
