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ज्ञाताधर्मकथांग सूत्र
Onung
HA
practical training of the seventy two arts (subjects) beginning with writing and ending at the language of birds. The list of these subjects is as follows
(1) Writing or Script (writing
and reading of eighteen different scripts popular at
that time.) (2) Mathematics (3) Decoration (4) Dramatics (5) Song (6) Instrumental music (7) Musicology / Phonetics (8) Playing percussion
instruments (9) Knowledge of beats (10) Gambling (11) Conversation (12) Playing dice (13) Playing board games like
Chopar (a type of ludo) (14) Instant poetry (15) Pottery (16) Farming (17) Water resources
management (18) Making cloth and apparels (19) Coating (20) Making bed and art of
sleeping (21) Poetry (Arya Chhand) (22) Riddles and puzzles (23) Magadhi language and its
poetics
(24) Prakrit language and its
poetics (25) The Giti meter of poetry (26) Shlok (the couplet style of
poetry) (27) Silver refining and smithy (28) Gold refining and smithy (29) Powder technology and its
applications (30) Making ornaments and art
of adornment (31) Taking care of females (32) Characteristics of the
female (33) Characteristics of the male (34) Characteristics of the
horse (35) Characteristics of the
elephant (36) Characteristics of the cow (37) Characteristics of the cock (38) Characteristics of the
canopy (39) Characteristics of the staff (40) Characteristics of the
sword (41) Characteristics of the gem (42) Characteristics of the
Kakini (a divine gem) (43) Architecture (44) Military camping
Swellen
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