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The Sixty-four Arts

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Posted 19th May 2008 at 02:23 AM by krishnaamma

I am giving all the names in English for those who cant read Tamil Letters.

The Sixty-four Arts

1. Toilet Make-up, toilet and use of beautifying agents
2. Painting the body, and colouring the nails, hair, etc.
3. Decoration of the forehead.
4. Art of hair dressing. Dressing
5. Art of dressing.
6. Proper matching of decorations and jewellery. Music and Dancing
7. Singing.
8. Playing on musical instruments.
9. Playing on musical glasses filled with water.
10. Acting.
11. Dancing. General Education
12. Good manners and etiquette.
13. Knowledge of diffenrent langguages and dialects.
14. Knowledge of vocabularies.
15. Knowledge of Rhetoric or Figures of Speech.
16. Reading.
17. Reciting poems.
18. Criticism of poems.
19. Criticism of dramas and analysis of stories.
20. Filling up the missing line of a poem. 21.
Composing poems to order.
22. Reply in verse (when one person recites a poem, another gives the reply in verse).
23. The art of speaking by changing the forms of words.
24. Art of knowing the character of a man from his features.
25. Art of attracting others (bewitching). Domestic Science
26. Art of cooking.
27. Preparation of different beverages, sweet and acid drinks, chutneys, etc.
28. Sewing and needle work.
29. Making of different beds for different purposes and for different seasons. Physical culture 30. Physical culture.
31. Skill in youthful sports.
32. Swimming and water-sports. Games
33. Games of dice, chess, etc.
34. Games of chance.
35. Puzzles and their solution.
36. Arithmetical games. Art of Entertaining
37. Magic: art of creating illusions.
38. Trick of hand.
39. Mimicry or imitation (of voice or sounds).
40. Art of disguise. Fine Arts
41. Painting in colours.
42. Stringing flowers into garlands and other ornaments for decorating the body, such as crowns, clapnets, etc.
43. Floral decorations of carriages.
44. Making of artificial flowers.
45. Preparation of ear-rings of shell, ivory, etc.
46. Making birds, flowers, etc., of thread or yarn.
47. Clay-modelling: making figures and images.
48. The art of changing the appearance of things such as
making to appear as silk. Pet Animals
49. Training parrots and other birds to talk.
50. Training rams and cocks and other birds for mock fight.
Professional Training
51. Gardening and agriculture.
52. Preparation of perfumery.
53. Making furniture from canes and reeds.
54. Wood-engraving.
55. Carpentry.
56. Knowledge of machinery.
57. Construction of building (Architecture).
58. Floor decoration with coloured stones.
59. Knowledge of metals.
60. Knowledge of gems and jewels.
61. Colouring precious stones.
62. Art of war.
63. Knowledge of code words.
64. Signals for conveying messages.

Atleast let us know the names.

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  1. Old Comment
    Sriniketan's Avatar
    Thanks for posting this list, Krishnamma...as you had said atleast let us know the names...

    sriniketan
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    Posted 19th May 2008 at 11:38 AM by Sriniketan Sriniketan is offline
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    krishnaamma's Avatar
    mmmmm :) correct.
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    Posted 20th May 2008 at 10:41 AM by krishnaamma krishnaamma is offline
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    Thanks for this useful information
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    Posted 20th May 2008 at 09:16 PM by chinnusubbu chinnusubbu is offline
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    Thanks for the information
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    Posted 21st May 2008 at 09:52 AM by sasisenthil sasisenthil is offline
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    Grace3's Avatar
    Had fun going thro' the list dear Krishnamma ; Big Laugh Big Laugh of all those I know only three !!

    It is no. 29 which is really intriguing me .... have been sleeping in same kind of bed all my
    life ..

    Thanks for posting.
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    Posted 3rd July 2008 at 03:40 PM by Grace3 Grace3 is offline
 

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