NICHAIGIRI SILAVESMAN

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Caves of unspecified nature (possibly man-made rock chambers), which LÜDERS, H (1904: 867-868, 1905) suspected to have been used for (religious?) prostitution (note 1), are situated somewhere near Vidisha (note 2) on one mount Nichaigiri, which the Sanskrit poet KALIDASA (circa 400b: Meghaduta 1.25) lauded as the mount which, by its stone houses, exhaling the amorous fragrance of venal women, betrays the dissipated youth of the cities (nore 3).Caves of unspecified nature (possibly man-made rock chambers), which LÜDERS, H (1904: 867-868, 1905) suspected to have been used for (religious?) prostitution (note 1), are situated somewhere near Vidisha (note 2) on one mount Nichaigiri, which the Sanskrit poet KALIDASA (circa 400b: Meghaduta 1.25) lauded as the mount which, by its stone houses, exhaling the amorous fragrance of venal women, betrays the dissipated youth of the cities (nore 3).