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The Sixty-Four Arts Of The Kama Sutra

May 11, 2017

Vatsayana lists out 64 arts to be cultivated to make a person more attractive. Incidentally his
recommendations are gender neutral. I keep in in every journal, a soul-list of sorts, a numinous
collection of ancient things I aspire towards (mostly). 

The 64 Arts Of The Kama Sutra are:

1. Singing

2. Playing a musical instrument

3. Dancing

4. A combination of singing, using musical

instruments and dancing

5. Writing and drawing

6.The Art of Tattooing

7.Adorning an idol with flowers

8. The art of spreading flowers on a bed or

on the ground

9. Coloring fabrics, nail and body with colors

from plants

10. Fixing colored glass tiles on floor

11.The art of making a bed

12.Producing music by striking glasses of

water

13. The art of storing water in reservoirs

14. The art of picture making and decorating

"Vajrayogini", Lisbeth Cheever-Gessaman, 2016

15. Making rosaries, necklaces, garlands

16. Tying turbans

17. Stage playing

18. The art of making ear ornaments

19. The art of making perfumes

20. Proper care of jewels, decorations and ornaments

21. Magic (sorcery)

22. Manual skills

23. Cooking (culinary skills)

24. Making combination drinks and flavored drinks i.e.– lemonades, sherbet etc

25. Tailoring and sewing

26. Making handicrafts e.g.– parrots, flowers etc. from thread

27. Skilsl to solve riddles, puzzles and covert speeches

28. The skill of Antakshari (a singing game were one must start with the letter with which other
person’s song ended)

29. The skill of imitating natural sounds

30. Reading, chanting and intoning

31. Mastering tongue twisters

32. Skills at martial arts (the skills to use sword, stick, bow and arrow)

33. Skill to reach logical conclusions based on given facts

34. Carpentry

35. Architecture

36. Knowledge about gold, silver and gems

37. Chemistry (knowledge of properties of materials)

38. The art of coloring jewels or beads

39. Knowledge of mines

40. Gardening

41.The art of cock fighting (getting cocks, quail or rams to fight and make the fowl/animal
victorious)

42.Teaching parrots or starlings to talk

43.Applying perfumes on body and hair

44. Understanding of code language

45. Spoonerism (purposefully interchanging position of letters of words while speaking)

46. Knowledge of languages

47. Knowledge of making flower chariots

48. Knowledge of making mystical graphics, spells and charms and ways to avoid spells

49.Mental exercises

50. Composing poems

51. Knowledge of dictionaries and vocabulary

52. The art of impersonation

53. Impersonation of materials i.e.– make common things appear fine rare substances (make
cotton appear to be silk)

54. Knowledge of gambling

55. Using mantras (enchantments) to take away others’ possession

56.Skills in sports and games

57.The art of social conduct, paying respect and sending compliments

58. Knowledge of war, arms and army deployment

59. Knowledge of gymnastics

60. The skills of knowing a person’s real character from his conduct

61. The skill of reading and composing verses

62. The skills of enjoying arithmetic puzzles

63. Making artificial flowers

64. Making images with clay

From the Kama Sutra:

“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 favorable to them, even though these may
have thousands of other wives besides themselves.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.”

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Rutuja ubale
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I loved this one. Please do detailed individual articles of these arts what have been given
in kamasutra. And please keep doing articles of kamsutra, it would be really beneficial.

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