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(24) "AKARA-GOPANA" Disguising:-This art taught women how to disguise at various times in the following ways. Sometimes she would appear like true and clever adviser before her husband and at another in the form of a lawyer with her sharp intelligence and ready wit, in order to solve the difficulty which might have overtaken her husband. Sometimes she should act as a father and sometimes as a mother. At the time of copulation she should act as a loving lady and if the husband is diseased, crippled, leper or unfit for work, she should first become a bread-giver and then a humble and loyal servant to him. At other times, when there is a danger of her chastity being robbed she should act as an angry cobra and run to destroy her enemy in the fire of her anger completely.
(25 & 26) "DHARMA-VICHARA AND DHARMA NITI" Religious education and religious morality. By means of these arts the women were taught what was a true religion and religious morality for them. They were taught that if a wife insulted her husband even though he might have been aged, diseased, idiot, poor, blind, deaf, irritant, and quite unable to work, she was sure to suffer the most hideous tortures in hell. It was impressed upon them that their only religion and religious conduct consisted in maintaining a pure and chaste conduct.
(27) "PRASADA-NITI" Mercy and sympathy:-By means of this art an attempt was made to make them merciful and sweet-tongued.
(28) "SANSKIRIT-JALPANA" Talking in Sanskirit:This art enabled them to acquire so much knowledge of
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