ideal woman

"Every girl need to learn the sixty-four arts, in order to command respect by her husband and by the other people in the society. These arts makes her the most sought girl by all and she also becomes an object of universal regard. Even the bare knowledge of them gives attractiveness to a woman, though the practice of them may be only possible or otherwise according to the circumstances of each case. Thus, the following are the `Sixty-Four` arts to be studied, together with the Kama Sutra: ~Singing, ~Playing on musical instruments, ~Dancing, ~Union of dancing, singing, and playing instrumental music, ~Writing and drawing, ~Tattooing, ~Arraying and adorning an idol with rice and flowers, ~Spreading and arranging beds or couches of flowers, or flowers upon the ground, ~Colouring the teeth, garments, hair, nails and bodies, i.e. staining, dyeing, colouring and painting the same, ~Fixing stained glass into a floor, ~ The art of making beds, and spreading out carpets and cushions for reclining, ~Playing on musical glasses filled with water, ~Storing and accumulating water in aqueducts, cisterns and reservoirs, ~Picture making, trimming and decorating, ~Stringing of rosaries, necklaces, garlands and wreaths, ~Binding of turbans and chaplets, and making crests and top-knots of flowers, ~Scenic representations, stage playing, art of making ear ornaments and art of preparing perfumes and odours, ~Proper disposition of jewels and decorations, and adornment in dress, ~Magic or sorcery, ~Quickness of hand or manual skill, ~Culinary art, i.e. cooking and cookery, ~Making lemonades, sherbets, acidulated drinks, and spirituous extracts with proper flavour and colour, ~Tailor`s work and sewing, ~Making parrots, flowers, tufts, tassels, bunches, bosses, knobs, etc., out of yarn or thread, ~Solution of riddles, enigmas, covert speeches, verbal puzzles and enigmatical questions, ~A game, which consisted in repeating verses, and as one person finished, another person had to commence at once, repeating another verse, beginning with the same letter with which the last speaker`s verse ended, whoever failed to repeat was considered to have lost, and to be subject to pay a forfeit or stake of some kind, ~The art of mimicry or imitation, ~Reading, including chanting and intoning, ~Study of sentences difficult to pronounce. It is played as a game chiefly by women, and children and consists of a difficult sentence being given, and when repeated quickly, the words are often transposed or badly pronounced, ~Practice with sword, single stick, quarter staff and bow and arrow, ~Drawing inferences, reasoning or inferring, ~Carpentry, or the work of a carpenter, ~Architecture, or the art of building, ~Knowledge about gold and silver coins, and jewels and gems, ~Chemistry and mineralogy, ~Colouring jewels, gems and beads, ~Knowledge of mines and quarries, ~Gardening; knowledge of treating the diseases of trees and plants, of nourishing them, and determining their ages, ~Art of cock fighting, quail fighting and ram fighting, ~Art of teaching parrots and starlings to speak, ~Art of applying perfumed ointments to the body, and of dressing the hair with unguents and perfumes and braiding it, ~The art of understanding writing in cypher, and the writing of words in a peculiar way, ~The art of speaking by changing the forms of words, ~Knowledge of language and of the vernacular dialects, ~Art of making flower carriages, ~Art of framing mystical diagrams, of addressing spells and charms, and binding armlets, ~Composing poems, ~Knowledge of dictionaries and vocabularies, ~Knowledge of ways of changing and disguising the appearance of persons, ~Knowledge of the art of changing the appearance of things, such as making cotton to appear as silk, coarse and common things to appear as fine and good, ~Various ways of gambling, ~Art of obtaining possession of the property of others by means of muntras or incantations, ~Skill in youthful sports, ~Knowledge of the rules of society, and of how to pay respect and compliments to others, ~Knowledge of the art of war, of arms, of armies, etc, ~Knowledge of gymnastics, ~Art of knowing the character of a man from his features, ~Knowledge of scanning or constructing verses, ~Arithmetical recreations, ~Making artificial flowers and lastly, ~Making figures and images in clay."