Vasantasena Vasuntsena : heroine of Mricchakaṭika (Toy Cart q.v.) by King Shudraka (see Mālavas).
... common as Aspasia. Nevertheless the higher & intellectual element seems to have prevailed; those who arrogated freedom in their sexual relations but were not prostitutes, are admirably portrayed in Vasuntsena of the Toy Cart, a beautiful melodrama drawn straight from the life; like her they often exchanged, with the consent of their lover's family, the unveiled face of the Hetaira for the seclusion of ...
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