Chausath Kalas (64 forms of art)
Geet vidya: art of singing.
Vadya vidya: art of playing on musical instruments.
Nritya vidya: art of dancing.
Natya vidya: art of theatricals.
Alekhya vidya: art of painting.
Viseshakacchedya vidya: art of painting the face and body with color
Tandula-kusuma-bali-vikara: art of preparing offerings from rice and flowers.
Pushpastarana: art of making a covering of flowers for a bed.
Dasana-vasananga-raga: art of applying preparations for cleansing the teeth, cloths and painting the body.
Mani-bhumika-karma: art of making the groundwork of jewels.
Aayya-racana: art of covering the bed.
Udaka-vadya: art of playing on music in water.
Udaka-ghata: art of splashing with water.
Citra-yoga: art of practically applying an admixture of colors.
Malya-grathana-vikalpa: art of designing a preparation of wreaths.
Sekharapida-yojana: art of practically setting the coronet on the head.
Nepathya-yoga: art of practically dressing in the tiring room.
Karnapatra-bhanga: art of decorating the tragus of the ear.
Sugandha-yukti: art of practical application of aromatics.
Bhushana-yojana: art of applying or setting ornaments.
Aindra-jala: art of juggling.
Kaucumara: a kind of art.
Hasta-laghava: art of sleight of hand.
Citra-sakapupa-bhakshya-vikara-kriya: art of preparing varieties of delicious food.
Panaka-rasa-ragasava-yojana: art of practically preparing palatable drinks and tinging draughts with red color.
Suci-vaya-karma: art of needleworks and weaving.
Sutra-krida: art of playing with thread.
Vina-damuraka-vadya: art of playing on lute and small drum.
Prahelika: art of making and solving riddles.
Durvacaka-yoga: art of practicing language difficult to be answered by others.
Pustaka-vacana: art of reciting books.
Natikakhyayika-darsana: art of enacting short plays and anecdotes.
Kavya-samasya-purana: art of solving enigmatic verses.
Pattika-vetra-bana-vikalpa: art of designing preparation of shield, cane and arrows.
Tarku-karma: art of spinning by spindle.
Takshana: art of carpentry.
Vastu-vidya: art of engineering.
Raupya-ratna-pariksha: art of testing silver and jewels.
Dhatu-vada: art of metallurgy.
Mani-raga jnana: art of tinging jewels.
Akara jnana: art of mineralogy.
Vrikshayur-veda-yoga: art of practicing medicine or medical treatment, by herbs.
Mesha-kukkuta-lavaka-yuddha-vidhi: art of knowing the mode of fighting of lambs, cocks and birds.
Suka-sarika-pralapana: art of maintaining or knowing conversation between male and female cockatoos.
Utsadana: art of healing or cleaning a person with perfumes.
Kesa-marjana-kausala: art of combing hair.
Akshara-mushtika-kathana: art of talking with fingers.
Dharana-matrika: art of the use of amulets.
Desa-bhasha-jnana: art of knowing provincial dialects.
Nirmiti-jnana: art of knowing prediction by heavenly voice.
Yantra-matrika: art of mechanics.
Mlecchita-kutarka-vikalpa: art of fabricating barbarous or foreign sophistry.
Samvacya: art of conversation.
Manasi kavya-kriya: art of composing verse
Kriya-vikalpa: art of designing a literary work or a medical remedy.
Chalitaka-yoga: art of practicing as a builder of shrines called after him.
Abhidhana-kosha-cchando-jnana: art of the use of lexicography and meters.
Vastra-gopana: art of concealment of cloths.
Dyuta-visesha: art of knowing specific gambling.
Akarsha-krida: art of playing with dice or magnet.
Balaka-kridanaka: art of using children’s toys.
Vainayiki vidya: art of enforcing discipline.
Vaijayiki vidya: art of gaining victory.
Vaitaliki vidya: art of awakening master with music at dawn.
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Author, you have any books on 64 arts?
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