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India bleeds of creativity! From dance.music,movies,to Art ,our country is rich in cultural heritage and home to numerous forms of art. On #WorldArtDay presenting 64 art forms of India
The mastery of as many of the 64 traditional arts. believed that Krishna possesses these #arts
1. Geet vidya: art of singing.
2. Vadya vidya: art of playing on musical instruments.
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. Tandula­kusuma­bali­vikara: art of preparing offerings from rice and flowers.
8. Pushpastarana: art of making a covering of flowers for a bed.
9. Dasana­vasananga­raga: art of applying preparations for cleansing the teeth, cloths and painting the body.
10. Mani­bhumika­karma: art of making the groundwork of jewels.
11. Aayya­racana: art of covering the bed.
12. Udaka­vadya: art of playing on music in water.
13. Udaka­ghata: art of splashing with water.
14. Citra­yoga: art of practically applying an admixture of colors.
15. Malya­grathana­vikalpa: art of designing a preparation of wreaths.
16. Sekharapida­yojana: art of practically setting the coronet on the head.
17. Nepathya­yoga: art of practically dressing in the tiring room.
18. Karnapatra­bhanga: art of decorating the tragus of the ear.
19. Sugandha­yukti: art of practical application of aromatics.
20. Bhushana­yojana: art of applying or setting ornaments.
21. Aindra­jala: art of juggling.
22. Kaucumara: a kind of art.
23. Hasta­laghava: art of sleight of hand.
24. Citra­sakapupa­bhakshya­vikara­kriya: art of preparing varieties of delicious food.
25. Panaka­rasa­ragasava­yojana: art of practically preparing palatable drinks and tinging draughts with red color.
26. Suci­vaya­karma: art of needleworks and weaving.
27. Sutra­krida: art of playing with thread.
28. Vina­damuraka­vadya: art of playing on lute and small drum.
29. Prahelika: art of making and solving riddles.
30. Durvacaka­yoga: art of practicing language difficult to be answered by others.
31. Pustaka­vacana: art of reciting books.
32. Natikakhyayika­darsana: art of enacting short plays and anecdotes.
33. Kavya­samasya­purana: art of solving enigmatic verses.
34. Pattika­vetra­bana­vikalpa: art of designing preparation of shield, cane and arrows.
35. Tarku­karma: art of spinning by spindle.
36. Takshana: art of carpentry.
37. Vastu­vidya: art of engineering.
38. Raupya­ratna­pariksha: art of testing silver and jewels.
39. Dhatu­vada: art of metallurgy.
40. Mani­raga jnana: art of tinging jewels.
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41. Akara jnana: art of mineralogy.
42. Vrikshayur­veda­yoga: art of practicing medicine or medical treatment, by herbs.
43. Mesha­kukkuta­lavaka­yuddha­vidhi: art of knowing the mode of fighting of lambs, cocks and birds.
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44. Suka­sarika­pralapana: art of maintaining or knowing conversation between male and
female cockatoos.
45. Utsadana: art of healing or cleaning a person with perfumes.
46. Kesa­marjana­kausala: art of combing hair.
47. Akshara­mushtika­kathana: art of talking with fingers.
48. Dharana­matrika: art of the use of amulets.
49. Desa­bhasha­jnana: art of knowing provincial dialects.
50. Nirmiti­jnana: art of knowing prediction by heavenly voice.
51. Yantra­matrika: art of mechanics
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52. Mlecchita­kutarka­vikalpa: art of fabricating barbarous or foreign sophistry.
53. Samvacya: art of conversation.
54. Manasi kavya­kriya: art of composing verse
55. Kriya­vikalpa: art of designing a literary work or a medical remedy.
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56. Chalitaka­yoga: art of practicing as a builder of shrines called after him.
57. Abhidhana­kosha­cchando­jnana: art of the use of lexicography and meters.
58. Vastra­gopana: art of concealment of cloths.
58. Vastra­gopana: art of concealment of clothes.
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59. Dyuta­visesha: art of knowing specific gambling.
60. Akarsha­krida: art of playing with dice or magnet.
61. Balaka­kridanaka: art of using children’s toys.
62. Vainayiki vidya: art of enforcing discipline.
63. Vaijayiki vidya: art of gaining victory.

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64. Vaitaliki vidya: art of awakening master with music at dawn.

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