Kalā
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Kalā (Sanskrit: कला) refers to art forms, attributes or virtues.
[edit] The 64 Kalas (art forms)
The 64 Kalas is the classical curriculum of sacred sciences, studies, arts and skills listed in various Hindu shastra.
- Histrionic Talents, Drama, story telling techniques, mnemonics etc.,
- Making musical Instruments, simple mechanical devices etc.,
- Playing Musical Instruments (i.e.) Instrumental music including jalatarangam- creating music with water, percussion and string instruments.
- Decorating, Dressmaking, costume making, artful dressing and personal grooming.
- Ornaments and head adornments
- Singing and Dancing , practicing fine arts
- Making beds, Bedroom decorations
- Garland making, flower arrangement, designs with grains on the floor like Rangoli
- Playing games like dice
- Mastering eroticism as per Vatsyayana, erotic devices and sexual arts
- Making honey, liquor , beverages and desserts
- Plucking out arrows and healing
- Cooking, eating and drinking skills
- Horticulture, forestry
- Breaking and pulverizing hardrock, mining
- Making Medicines from herbs
- Sorting, Mixing, Isolating Ingredients
- Making and using Astras and Sustras
- Wrestling, Boxing, Gymnastics, physical culture, body building etc.,
- Making ICBM
- Parades , Army Bands and Dharmic warfare
- Ratha, Gaja, Turaga wars ( Chariot, Elephantry and Cavalry)
- Asanas, Postures & Mudras
- Training elephants, horses, birds
- Making Vessels of clay, wood, bronze
- Drawing
- Making Paints & Painting
- Architecture, Sculpture, house and temple construction, mosaic tiling
- Mixing air, water etc (Air Products and Water Products)
- Boats, Ships, Chariots etc
- Making threads, ropes etc
- Weaving and Spinning
- Diamond , Precious Stones and gems-distinguishing them from ordinary ones.
- Alchemy, Chemistry , preparing ointments, unguents for charm and virility
- Jewellery making including artificial jewelry
- Gold Plating, metallurgy
- Skinning and Preserving bodies
- Leather Technology
- Dairy Farming
- Tailoring, Sartorial skills and Embroidery
- Swimming and water sports
- Cleaning houses and vessels
- Laundering and Washing
- Hair dressing and Shaving
- Managing Oil Resources
- Having control over others' minds, spells, charms ,Omens
- Tilling and agriculture
- Handicrafts including Carpentry, furniture making and furnishing
- Making Vessels of glass , ceramic and pottery
- Drawing water & resources
- Gardening and Fencing
- Caporisoning elephants etc
- Child rearing & Pediatrics including doll making and toy making for kids
- Punishing guilty appropriately by Law and Order
- Learning Languages / dialects (both native and foreign), literary excellence, semantics
- Preparing 'Tambool' etc.
- Composing impromptu poetry
- Preparing perfumes, cosmetics, playing poetry games, oratory, elocution, prosody, rhetoric
- Sorcery, Conjuring, Sleight of hand, Magic, Illusions, Impersonation
- Composing Riddles, Rhymes, Verses, Puzzles, Tongue twisters and involved recitations
- Making swords, Staffs, Archery
- Training fighting partridges and rams, Cock fight, Bull fight etc.,
- Teaching parrots, mynas to talk and training animals, Veterinary science
- Writing in cipher codes and languages, secret mantras, coding and decoding.
[edit] References
- ^ Ramaswamy, Anbil Hinduism Rediscovered - A Contemporary study of Hindu thought from Vedic roots - Chapter: Sources
