CHAPITRE II - Of the ownership of sixty four liberal arts

There are sixty four liberal arts which it is advisable to learn at the same time as those taught in Kama Soutra.

Their list includes, besides the talents of enjoyment ( approval ? ), the useful arts such as the architecture, the weapons, the strategy, the kitchen, the means to appropriate the good of others by mantras (prayers) and incantations, etc.; in brief, all the liberal arts of time.

A courtesan who has in division ( sharing ? ) the spirit, the beauty and the other attractions and who, besides, knows sixty four liberal arts, obtains the title of Ganika or courtesan of high row ( rank ? ), and occupies a place of honor in men's ( people ? ) meetings. The respects of king and the praises of the scholars are acquired to him ( her ? ); all look for his ( her;its ? ) favour and return him ( her ? ) honorings.

If the girl of king or Minister possesses these talents, she is always the favourite, the first wife, even though her husband would have thousands of the other women [ 10 ].

[ Note 10: we see by what precedes that the courtesans and the girls of the big were the only women to whom it was allowed to acquire talents.]

A woman separated from her husband or fallen in the dénûment, can live on these talents, even in foreign country.

Their only ownership gives many attractions to a woman, even though circumstances do not allow him ( her ? ) to apply them. A man who is provided with it and who at the same time is eloquent and courteous, made by fast conquests. In here is the naming:

1. The song.

2. The instrumental music.

3. The dance.

4. The union of the previous three arts.

5. The writing and the drawing.

6. The tatouement.

7. The art to dress an idol and to decorate her with the rice and the flowers.

8. Spread ( widen ? ) and arrange ( settle ? ) beds or coats ( layers ? ) of flowers either spread flowers on the ground.

9. Application of colours in teeth, in clothes, in hair, in nails and in body, that is to make it fleck and drawings, to dye them and to paint them.

10. Fix glasses coloured in a parquet ( public prosecutor's department ? ).

11. The preparation of beds, carpets and pillows of rest.

12. Make a music with glasses filled ( performed ? ) with water.

13. Amass some water in aqueducts, cisterns and reservoirs.

14. The painting, the ornamentation and the decoration of safes ( chests ? ) and caskets.

15. The preparation of rosaries, necklaces, festoons and plaits.

16. The classification of turbans, crowns, aigrettes and plaits of flowers at the top of the head.

17. The theatre performances, the scenic game ( set ? ).

18. The art to make ornaments of ears.

19. The preparation of the smells and the flavors.

20. The art to place jewels and ornaments in the clothing.

21. The magic and the witchcraft.

22. The address of hands.

23. The kitchen.

24. The preparation of the slightly acid, fragrant drinks, the soft drinks, the sherbets and the syrupy and spiritious extracts pleasant to the taste and to the sight.

25. The sewing and the size of clothes.

26. The tapestry, the woolen embroidery or in thread, parrots, flowers; make aigrettes, acorns, panaches, bouquets, buttons, relief embroidery.

27. Resolve enigmae, sentences with a double meaning, games of words and riddles.

28. The game ( set ? ) of verses; so, a person says verses, the following one continues them by the others, who have to begin with the last letter of the last recited verse; if the person who gives the retort does not make a success, she ( it ? ) pays a fine or gives a security.

29. The mime or the imitation.

30. The declamation and the recitation.

31. The pronunciation of the difficult sentences; it is a game ( set ? ) between women or children; when the sentences are fast repeated, there are often truncated, transposed, badly begun words, which give to the ambiguity and to the laughter.

32. The fencing in weapons, in stick; the exercise of the bow by throwing ( launching ? ) arrows on a mobile and immovable purpose.

33. The dialectic.

34. The architecture.

35. The skeleton.

36. The knowledge of the titles of the gold and the money ( silver ? ), the marks ( brands ? ) on jewels and precious stones.

37. The chemistry and the mineralogy.

38. The tint ( coloring ? ) of jewels, precious stones and pearls.

39. The exploitation of appearances ( mines ? ) and careers.

40. The gardening, the treatment of the diseases of trees and plants, their interview ( maintenance ? ) and the determination of their age.

41. The cock fights of quails and pigeons.

42. The art to learn to speak to the parrots and to the starlings.

43. The art to perfume the body and the hair, to braid and arrange ( settle ? ) these.

44. The art to decipher the writings where the words are arranged a certain particular way.

43. The art to speak by changing the shape of the words; some change the beginning and the end of the words; others introduce particular letters between the syllables, etc.

46. Knowledge of the languages and the dialect.

47. The art to make cars with flowers.

48. The composition of the mystic diagrams, the lots ( fates ? ) and the charms, the art to attach rings.

49. Games of spirit: as to complete verses and unfinished stanzas or to fill ( perform ? ) by verses intervals left between other verses which are bound ( connected ? ) by no sense ( direction ? ), so as to give a sense ( direction ? ) to the set ( group ? ); either arrange ( settle ? ) the letters of a word which we badly wrote on purpose, by separating the vowels of consonants, or putting together all the vowels; put in verse or in prose of stanzas represented by lines or symbols ( logogriphes ); and other similar games.

50. The composition of the poems [ 11 ].

51. The composition of dictionaries, lexicons, vocabularies.

52. The art to disguise and to disguise the others.

53. The art to change the appearances of objects, for example give to the box the appearance of the silk, publish beautiful and precious common and unrefined things.

54. The games of money ( silver ? ).

55. The art to seize the good of others by mantras and incantations, the anaesthesia and the delight.

56. The skill in the games and the exercises of address (for young people).

57. The knowledge of the world, the respects, the consideration and the compliments due to each according to the row ( rank ? ), its age.

58. The art of the war, the strategy, the manipulation of weapons.

59. The gym of the body.

60. The art to recognize the character of the persons by the inspection of their face.

61. The versification.

62. The arithmetic and the resolution of the problems.

63. The art to make artificial flowers.

64. The art to make with some clay of the relief figures, statues (ceramic).

[ Note 11: in this time the poetry was strong in honor in the yard of Indian kings. We considerable sums a sonnet or an epigram which had pleased.

( Théodore Pavie, the Renaissance of Brahmanisme. _R. Both Worlds _). These epigrams were especially to be fine, such as that sent to Baour de Lormiau, by an academician that he ( it ? ) had mocked heavily on his ( her;its ? ) prosperous at health:

Of glory Baour also feeds see as he ( it ? ) makes look slimmer ( loses weight ? )! (Baour was always whistled to the theater).]

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