Kalā

Kalā (Sanskrit: कला) refers to art forms, attributes or virtues.

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.ref|kalas

References

*Ramaswamy, Anbil "Hinduism Rediscovered - A Contemporary study of Hindu thought from Vedic roots" - Chapter: Sources