godborn

Updated: May 10, 2025

They all read and write in Sanskrit, and study the best literature of ancient India, and her six chief philosophies, but especially music, singing and dancing. Besides these "godborn" priestesses of the pagodas, there are also public nautches, who, like the Egyptian almeas, are within the reach of ordinary mortals, not only of gods; they also are in most cases women of a certain culture.

H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky - From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan