playing;
art of making ear ornaments; art of preparing perfumes and odours; proper
disposition of jewels and decorations, and adornment in dress; magic or sorcery;
quickness of hand or manual skill; culinary art, i.e. cooking and cookery;
making lemonades, sherbets, acidulated drinks, and spirituous extracts with
proper flavour and colour; tailor’s work and sewing; making parrots, flowers,
tufts, tassels,, bosses, knobs etc. out of yarn or thread; solution of riddles,
enigmas, covert speeches, verbal puzzles and enigmatical questions; the art of
mimicry or imitation; reading, including chanting and intoning; study of
sentences difficult to pronounce; practice with sword, single stick, quarter
staff and bow and arrow; drawing inferences, reasoning and inferring; carpentry;
architecture, or the art of building; knowledge about gold and silver coins, and
jewels and gems; chemistry and mineralogy; colouring jewels, gems and beads;
knowledge of mines and quarries; gardening: knowledge of treating the diseases
of trees and plants, of nourishing them, and determining their ages; art of cock
fighting, quail fighting and ram fighting; art of teaching parrots and starlings
to speak; art of applying perfumed ointments to the body, and of dressing the
hair with unguents and perfumes and braiding it; art of understanding writing in
cypher, and the writing of words in a peculiar way; art of speaking by changing
the forms of words, by changing the beginning and end of words, adding
unnecessary letters between every syllable of a word, and so on; knowledge of
language and of the vernacular dialects; art of making flower carriages; art of
framing mystical diagrams, of addressing spells and charms, and binding armlet;
mental exercises, such as completing stanzas or verses on receiving a part of
them; com posing poems;
knowledge of dictionaries and vocabularies; knowledge of ways of changing and disguising
the appearance of persons; knowledge of ways of changing the appearance of
things, such as making cotton to appear as silk, coarse and common things to
appear as fine and good; various
ways of gambling; art of obtaining possession of the property of others by means
of mantras or incantations; skill in youthful sports; knowledge of the rules of
society, and of how to pay respect and compliments to others; knowledge of the
art of war, of arms, of armies, etc; knowledge of scanning or constructing
verses; arithmetical recreations; making artificial flowers; making figures and
images in clay.