"As dated in the 1959 version of de Camp's essay "The Krishna Stories" and James Cambias's "GURPS Planet Krishna" (a 1997 gaming guide to the "Viagens" series authorized by de Camp), the action of "The Virgin of Zesh" takes place in A.D. 2150, falling between "The Prisoner of Zhamanak" and "The Bones of Zora", and making it the ninth story set on Krishna in terms of internal chronology.