As A Man Poem by Gajanan Mishra

As a man, one should learn all sixtyfour educations;
Singing, playing on musical instruments,
Dancing, drama, painting,
Also painting the face and body
With color unguents and cosmetics,
Preparing auspicious designs on the floors
With rice and flowers, making a bed of flowers,
Coloring one's teeth, clothes and limbs,
Inlaying a floor with jewels, covering bed,
Ringing waterpots, splashing with water,
Mixing colors, preaparing wreaths,
Setting a helmet on the head,
Putting on apparel in a dressing room,
Decorating the earlobe, applying aromatics,
Decorating with jewelry, jugglery, the art of disguise,
Sleight of hands, preparing varieties of salad,
Bread, cake and other delicious food,
preparing palatable drins and tinging draughts with red color,
Needle work and weaving, making puppet dance
By manipulating thin threads,
Playing on a lute and a small x-shaped drum,
Making and soving riddles,
Capping verses, reciting poems,
Utering statements difficult for others to answer,
Reciting books, enacting short plays and
Writings anecdotes,
Solving enigmatic verses, making a bow
From a strip of cloth and stick, spinning with a spindle,
Carpentry, archjitecture, testiong si8lver and jewels,
Metalurgy, tinging jewels with various colors,
Mineralogy, herbal medicine, art of training
And engaging rams, cocks and quails in fighting,
Knowledge of how to train male and female parrots
To speak and answer the questions of men,
Healing a person with ointments,
Hairdressing, telling what is written in a book
Without seeing it, telling what is hidden
In another's fist, fabricating barbarous or foreign sophistry,
Knowledge of privincial dialects, ,
Knowledge of how to build toy carts with flowers,
Composing magic squares, arrangements of numbers adding up
To the same total in all directions, use of amulets, conversation,
Compoosing verses mentally, designing a literary work or a medical remedy,
Building shrines, Lixicography and knowledge of poetic meters,
Disguishing one kind of cloth to look like another,
Knoweldge of various forms of gambling, Playing dice,
Playing with children toys,
Enforcing discipline by mystic power, gaining victory,
Awakening one's master with music at dawn.
And by earning such knowledge a man can become a god
And solve so many problems of this world.