How does Balram manage to collect enough money for a blonde prostitute in "The Sixth Night"?

Balram describes the sights that he believes suggest that such a war will happen: “an overturned flower urn …hundreds [of men] under trees, shrines, intersections … what were they reading about? What were they talking about? … a beggar sitting by the side of the road, a nearly naked man coated with grime …”