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seventy-two arts, constantly applying himself to them, he was in the full bloom of youth, he had a fine figure and good looks. His father procured him a beautiful and beloved sweetheart, Rūpiṇī, with whom he amused himself in his pleasant palace, like a Dvikundaka god.’ In the Buddhist and the Jain periods a far better knowledge of these arts are thus evinced. In the *Lalita-vistara* it is distinctly stated that ‘all arts were current on the earth in their immensity (*aprameya*) and they were learnt in millions of years (*bahukalpa-koṭyaḥ*).’