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and swimming; in the use of arrows; in riding on the neck of the clephant, on the back of the horse, and on the chariot; in fighting with bows; in firmness, vigour, and veteranship; in wrestling; in the use of the goad and the lasso ; in vehicles for going upwards, forwards and on water; in boxing; in hairdressing; m cropping, piercing, swimming, and high jumps in guessing : in divining others' thoughts; in explaining eniguas; in luard beating ; in dice-playing; in poetry and grammar; in book-writing; in assuming shapes (pantomime); in the art of decoration ; in reading ; in pyrotechnics; in playing on the l'íná; in music and dancing: in reciting songs; in story-telling; in dances; in symbiony ; in dramatic exhibition; in masquerade; in making tuwer garlands ; iv shampooing ; in tinting jewels; in dyeing cloth; in jugglery ; in explaining dreams; in divining from the cries of lords ; in the knowledge of the characteristics of women, men, horses, cattle, goats, and eunuchs; in deniouology; in the lelii glosary; in the Nigamas, Puráņas, Itihasas, Vedas, gramirar, Virahtit, (lexicography), S'ihshá. (l'honology), Chhandas (versitication), jun ritual (kalpa), and astronomy; in the Sankhya, the Yoga and the Vaiseshika doctrines; in ceremonials; in dress; in political economy (arthavirlyii); in ethics, lagerdemain (-Iscbarya), and surgery (Asura); in the knowledge of the cries of mammals and birds; in disputation het uuidya); in lae ornaments, int was- syorks; in needle-work; in basket-work; in Ical-cutting; in perfumery,36
Now, at that time Dandapáni, the S'ákya, bestowed bis dangliter, the Siksa maiden (opá, on the Bodhisattva. She was caused by kiny Snilhodana to be duly married to the Bodhisattva. Having obtained ber from amidst eighty-four thousand maidons, the Bodhisattiva, according to human practice, gratified himself by enjoying and associating with her. Gopá was installed the chiel quen amidst the eighty four thousand maidens, and she did not cover her face in the presence of any persın, neither before her mother-in-law, nor before ber father-in-law, nor before other persons of the bouse. They all advised her and argued with her.
