Ribald Classic: To Hear Is To Obey

February, 1961

A story is told of a certain prince who ruled a city and who was strong and handsome and in the full flower of young manhood. One day as he made his way through the city, his eyes encountered a vision of loveliness named Lavanyavati, the wife of a merchant's son, a greedy young man known as Charundatta. At that instant, the prince was transfixed by the arrows of the god of love, and the lady was herself wounded by darts from the same bow. Even so, she refused all invitations from the prince and...