The goddess Saraswati is the patroness of 64 arts, skills that everyone is beneficial to possess. In different peoples of India, in different regions and in different movements of Hinduism, the lists of 64 arts differ. There are also men’s and women’s lists. Both boys and girls had to master 64 arts, paying special attention to those skills that were especially important to a particular sex life. In the list there are typical male activities (military affairs, the art of gambling and cockfighting, etc.), and purely female (manufacturing incense and perfumes, artificial flowers, the art of braiding braids, etc.), which […]
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