Page 87 - Courage Redifined

After some years, she started doing charity and my father
went there to get some money. Kamlata gave him abundant
wealth and called him at the Goddess’s Temple on the fateful
night of Kali Chaudasa to help her flee from the king and
come back home. But he never returned home. Hence, I am
now an orphan without either a mother or a father. I left my
home town to travel across the country and eventually ended
up here.”

Kamlata was shocked on hearing this. A chill ran down her
spine.“What did I do ? Such a dreadful act with my own son!
But if I unravel the truth to him, he will also be shocked. What
if he cannot face the truth ? What it he ends up committing
suicide ?” Thinking on these lines, she did not utter a single word.
Now the question that arises here is that why didn’t the
Brahmin ask about the prostitute’s history or how she ended
up becoming a prostitute.

The answer is that people on this Arya land have a strong
faith that women from renowned and good families would
never accept such a low occupation of prostitution. They
thought that only women from low families or those born
due to some injustice or those who are abandoned right after
birth or those who had come accidentally in the hands of
some prostitute would accept such a low-profile occupation.
Otherwise, a person from a noble family would never engage
in such a profession. “What to inquire about the life of such
a woman from such a downtrodden family ?” Due to such
an understanding, the Brahmin scholar did not question
Kamlata.

The characteristics of a noble class :

In the past, there was such a firm belief related to people
hailing from a noble family that they would never cross the
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