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• Making artificial flowers
• Making figures and images in clay
A public woman, endowed with a good disposition, beauty and other winning qualities, and also
versed in the above arts, obtains the name of a Ganika, or public woman of high quality, and
receives a seat of honour in an assemblage of men. She is, moreover, always respected by the king,
and praised by learned men, and her favour being sought for by all, she becomes an object of
universal regard. The daughter of a king too as well as the daughter of a minister, being learned in
the above arts, can make their husbands favourable to them, even though these may have thousands
of other wives besides themselves. And in the same manner, if a wife becomes separated from her
husband, and falls into distress, she can support herself easily, even in a foreign country, by means
of her knowledge of these arts. 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. A man who is versed in these arts, who is loquacious and acquainted with the arts of
gallantry, gains very soon the hearts of women, even though he is only acquainted with them for a
short time.
Footnotes
1
The author wishes to prove that a great many things are done by people from practice and
custom, without their being acquainted with the reason of things, or the laws on which they
are based, and this is perfectly true.
2
The proviso of being married applies to all the teachers.
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