How to make yourself simple

Jacob Sunderlin, Purdue University

Abstract

These are the sixty-four subsidiary subjects not included: Singing; instrumental music; dancing; painting; cutting leaves into special shapes for use as beauty spots; making decorative patterns with rice grains and flowers; arranging flowers; coloring the teeth, the body, and garments; inlaying gems in floors; making beds; making music with bowls of water; splashing water in games; various cures; stringing garlands; making diadems and chaplets; fancy dress costumes; making ear ornaments; mixing perfumes; arrangement of jewelry; conjuring tricks; casting spells; sleights of hand; preparation of unusual vegetables, soups, and other things to eat; preparation of juices, wines, and other things to drink; needlework; weaving tricks; playing the lute and the drum; telling and solving riddles; capping words; reciting difficult verses; reading aloud; staging plays and stories; completing stanzas; making things from cloth, cane, and straw; enamelwork; wood-carving; architecture; assessment of gems; metallurgy; knowledge of colors and sources of gems; horticulture; setting up fights between rams, cocks, and quails; teaching parrots and mynah birds to talk; skills of cleaning, massaging, and hair-dressing; speaking in sign language; use of secret words; knowledge of dialects; making flower toys; knowledge of omens; making magical diagrams; the art of memorization; repeating heard phrases or verses; improvisation of poetry; knowledge of dictionaries; knowledge of prosody; knowledge of poetics; mimicry; using clothes for disguise; special types of gambling; games with the dice; children's games; knowledge of etiquette; knowledge of strategic sciences; knowledge of athletic skills. The sixty-four arts of Panchala are different. They are erotic in nature and we will speak of their application in the following pages.^

Degree

M.F.A.

Advisors

Marianne Boruch, Purdue University.

Subject Area

Literature, American

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