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a courtezan abandons her present lover after all his wealth is exhausted, she may then consider about her re-union with a former lover. But she should return to him only if he has acquired fresh wealth, or is still wealthy, and if he is still attached to her. And if this man be living at the time with some other woman she should consider well before she acts.

Now such a man can only be in one of the six following conditions, viz.:


 * 1) He may have left the first woman of his own accord, and may even have left another woman since then.
 * 2) He may have been driven away from both women.
 * 3) He may have left the one woman of his own accord, and been driven away by the other.
 * 4) He may have left the one woman of his own accord, and be living with another woman.
 * 5) He may have been driven away from the one woman, and left the other of his own accord.
 * 6) He may have been driven away by the one woman, and may be living with another.

(1) Now if the man has left both women of his own accord, he should not be resorted to, on account of the fickleness of nis mind, and his indifference to the excellences of both of them.

(2) As regards the man who may have been driven away from both women, if he has been driven away from the last one because the woman could get more money from some other man, then he should be resorted to, for if attached to the first woman he would give her more money through vanity and emulation to spite the other woman. But if he has been driven away by the woman on account of his poverty, or stinginess, he should not then be resorted to.

(3) In the case of the man who may have left the one woman of his own accord, and been driven away by the other, if he agrees to return to the former and give her plenty of money beforehand, then he should be resorted to.

(4) In the case of the man who may have left the one