64 Kalas that a student must expertise according to Vedas

1. Geet vidya – art of singing
2. Vadya vidya – art of playing o musical ninstruments
3. Nritya vidya – art of dancing
4. Natya vidya – art of theatricals
5. Alekhya vidya – art of painting
6. Viseshakacchedya vidya – art of painting the face and body with color
7. Tandula-kusuma-bali-vikara – art of preparing offerings from rice and flowers
8. Pushpastarana – art of making a covering of flowers for a bed
9. Dasana-vasananga-raga – art of applying preparations for cleansing the teeth, cloths and painting the body
10. Mani-bhumika-karma – art of making the groundwork of jewels
11. Sayya-racana – art of covering the bed
12. Udaka-vadya – art of playing on music in water
13. Udaka-ghata – art of splashing with water
14. Citra-yoga – art of practically applying an admixture of colors
15. Malya-grathana-vikalpa – art of designing a preparation of wreaths
16. Sekharapida-yojana – art of practically setting the coronet on the head
17. Nepathya-yoga – art of practically dressing in the tiring room
18. Karnapatra-bhanga – art of decorating the tragus of the ear
19. Sugandha-yukti – art of practical application of aromatics
20. Bhushana-yojana – art of applying or setting ornaments
21. Aindra-jala – art of juggling
22. Kaucumara – kind of art
23. Hasta-laghava – art of sleight of hand
24. Citra-sakapupa-bhakshya-vikara-kriya – art of preparing varieties of delicious food
25. Panaka-rasa-ragasava-yojana – art of practically preparingpalatable drinks and and tinging draughts with red color
26. Suci-vaya-karma – art of needleworks and weaving
27. Sutra-krida – art of playing with thread
28. Vina-damuraka-vadya – art of playing on lute and small drum
29. Prahelika – art of making and solving riddles
30. Durvacaka-yoga – art of practicing language difficult to be answered by others
31. Pustaka-vacana – art of reciting books
32. Natikakhyayika-darsana – art of enacting short plays and anecdotes
33. Kavya-samasya-purana – art of solving enigmatic verses
34. Pattika-vetra-bana-vikalpa – art of designing preparation of shield, cane and arrows
35. Tarku-karma – art of spinning by spindle
36. Takshana – art of carpentry
37. Vastu-vidya – art of engineering
38. Dhatu-vada – art of metallurgy
39. Raupya-ratna-pariksha – art of testing silver and jewels
40. Mani-raga jnana – art of tinging jewels
41. Akara jnana – art of mineralogy
42. Vrikshayur-veda-yoga – art of practicing medicine or medical treatment, by herbs
43. Mesha-kukkuta-lavaka-yuddha-vidhi – art of knowing the mode of fighting of lambs, cocks and birds
44. Suka-sarika-prapalana (pralapana) – art of maintaining or knowing conversation between male and female cockatoos
45. Utsadana – art of healing or cleaning a person with perfumes
46. Kesa-marjana-kausala – art of combing hair
47. Akshara-mushtika-kathana – art of talking with letters and fingers
48. Mlecchita-kutarka-vikalpa – art of fabricating barbarous or foreign sophistry
49. Desa-bhasha-jnana – art of knowing provincial dialects
50. Nirmiti-jnana – art of knowing prediction by heavenly voice
51. Yantra-matrika – art of mechanics
52. Dharana-matrika – art of the use of amulets
53. Samvacya – art of conversation
54. Manasi kavya-kriya – art of composing verse mentally
55. Kriya-vikalpa – art of designing a literary work or a medical remedy
56. Chalitaka-yoga – art of practicing as a builder of shrines called after him
57. Abhidhana-kosha-cchando-jnana – art of the use of lexicography and meters
58. Vastra-gopana – art of concealment of cloths
59. Dyuta-visesha – art of knowing specific gambling
60. Akarsha-krida – art of playing with dice or magnet
61. Balaka-kridanaka – art of using children’s toys
62. Vainayiki vidya – art of enforcing discipline
63. Vaijayiki vidya – art of gaining victory
64. Vaitaliki vidya – art of awakening master with music at dawn