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[ The sixty four arts
(54) "VITANDAVADA” Debating:- This art taught them how to debate in various ways.
(55) “ANKA-VICHARA” Knowledge of figures:--The necessary knowledge of keeping family account was imparted to them by means of this art.
. (56) “LOKA-VYAVAHARA” General behaviour:- This art taught women how to move in the society and how to behave with a certain individual at a particular time so that righteousness and wealth as well as good feelings, ind this life as well as the next might not be spoiled and ruined.
(57) “PRASNA-PRAHELIKA” Witty and humorous questions:- This art enabled them to ask various kinds of witty, humorous and essentially useful questions and puzzles and to solve them with the help of their sharp intelligence and ready wit.
(58) “ANTYAKSHARI” The last letter competition:This art taught them how to guess a thing from its last letter and how to complete a verse when its last line was missing.
Similarly, a knowledge of the arts of ( 59 ) Kriya-kalpa, (60) Varnika-Vriddhi, (61) Ghata-Bhramana, (62 ) SaraParisrama, ( 63 ) Para-Nirakarana, and ( 64 ) Phala-Vrishti, was given to the women quite systematically.
- Besides these above arts of the males and females,king Rishabha Devaji had also made proper arrangements for teaching reading, and writing the 18 characters and 14 scie. nces ( material and non-material ) to the four kulas namely, (1) the Ugra-kula, which consisted of the kotavala and the
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