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• 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. It is of various kinds. Some speak by
changing the beginning and end of words, others by adding unnecessary letters between
every syllable of a word, and so on
• 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
• Mental exercises, such as completing stanzas or verses on receiving a part of them; or
supplying one, two or three lines when the remaining lines are given indiscriminately from
different verses, so as to make the whole an entire verse with regard to its meaning; or
arranging the words of a verse written irregularly by separating the vowels from the
consonants, or leaving them out altogether; or putting into verse or prose sentences
represented by signs or symbols. There are many other such exercises.
• 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
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