Kalā
Kalā means performing art in Sanskrit.
64 Arts
The mastery of over 64 kinds of service is called chatushashti Kalas. They are:
- Geet vidya: singing.
- Vadya vidya: playing on musical instruments.
- Nritya vidya: dancing.
- Natya vidya: theatricals.
- alekhya vidya: painting.
- viseshakacchedya vidya: painting the face and body with color
- tandula-kusuma-bali-vikara: preparing offerings from rice and flowers.
- pushpastarana: making a covering of flowers for a bed.
- dasana-vasananga-raga: applying preparations for cleansing the teeth, cloths and painting the body.
- mani-bhumika-karma: making the groundwork of jewels.
- sayya-racana: covering the bed.
- udaka vadya: playing on music in water.
- udaka-ghata: splashing with water.
- citra-yoga: practically applying an admixture of colors.
- malya-grathana-vikalpa: designing a preparation of wreaths.
- sekharapida-yojana: practically setting the coronet on the head.
- nepathya-yoga: practically dressing in the tiring room.
- karnapatra-bhanga: decorating the tragus of the ear.
- sugandha-yukti: practical application of aromatics.
- bhushana-yojana: applying or setting ornaments.
- aindra-jala: juggling.
- kaucumara: a kind of art.
- hasta-laghava: sleight of hand.
- citra-sakapupa-bhakshya-vikara-kriya: preparing varieties of delicious food.
- panaka-rasa-ragasava-yojana: practically preparing palatable drinks and tinging draughts with red color.
- suci-vaya-karma: needleworks and weaving.
- sutra-krida: playing with thread.
- vina-damuraka-vadya: playing on flute and small drum.
- prahelika: making and solving riddles.
- durvacaka-yoga: practicing language difficult to be answered by others.
- pustaka-vacana: reciting books.
- natikakhyayika-darsana: enacting short plays and anecdotes.
- kavya-samasya-purana: solving enigmatic verses.
- pattika-vetra-bana-vikalpa: designing preparation of shield, cane and arrows.
- tarku-karma: spinning by spindle.
- takshana: carpentry.
- vastu-vidya: engineering.
- raupya-ratna-pariksha: testing silver and jewels.
- dhatu-vada: metallurgy.
- mani-raga jnana: tinging jewels.
- akara jnana: mineralogy.
- vrikshayur-veda-yoga: practicing medicine or medical treatment, by herbs.
- mesha-kukkuta-lavaka-yuddha-vidhi: knowing the mode of fighting of lambs, cocks and birds.
- suka-sarika-prapalana (pralapana): maintaining or knowing conversation between male and female cockatoos.
- utsadana: healing or cleaning a person with perfumes.
- kesa-marjana-kausala: combing hair.
- akshara-mushtika-kathana: talking with fingers.
- dharana-matrika: the use of amulets.
- desa-bhasha-jnana: knowing provincial dialects.
- nirmiti-jnana: knowing prediction by heavenly voice
- yantra-matrika: mechanics.
- mlecchita-kutarka-vikalpa: fabricating barbarous or foreign sophistry.
- samvacya: conversation.
- manasi kavya-kriya: composing verse mentally.
- kriya-vikalpa: designing a literary work or a medical remedy.
- chalitaka-yoga: practicing as a builder of shrines called after him.
- abhidhana-kosha-cchando-jnana: the use of lexicography and meters.
- vastra-gopana: concealment of cloths.
- dyuta-visesha: knowing specific gambling.
- akarsha-krida: playing with dice or magnet.
- balaka-kridanaka: using children's toys.
- vainayiki vidya: enforcing discipline.
- vaijayiki vidya: gaining victory.
- vaitaliki vidya: awakening master with music at dawn.
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