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A female, therefore, should learn the Kama Shastra, or at least a part of it, by studying its practice
from some confidential friend. She should study alone in private the sixty-four practices that form a
part of the Kama Shastra. Her teacher should be one of the following persons: the daughter of a
nurse brought up with her and already married,2 or a female friend who can be trusted in
everything, or the sister of her mother (i.e. her aunt), or an old female servant, or a female beggar
who may have formerly lived in the family, or her own sister who can always be trusted.
The following are the 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 Art of preparing
perfumes and odours
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