The World of Courtesans c8.15

c8.15

As a matter of fact in these sixty-four arts only the first list, that includes music and dancing, painting and sculpture, making of garlands, cutting of stencils, preparing articles of toilet etc., comes within the category of arts. The twenty other arts are merely arts of speculation, which show the highly intelligent nature of the heroine. The final list of twenty arts merely enumerates the way the heroine acts in the presence of her lover in the bedroom in order to retain his love.