LalithA SahasranAma [236] CatuhsastikalAmayi

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CatuhsastikalAmayi : Sixty four sciences

 

These are differently enumerated in the SArngadhariya, Sridhara's

KathA-kosa and in the LakmipithikA and these are set forth by

us:"[1] The knowledge of the eighteen letters [lipi]; [2] and [3]

the power of writing and reading these quickly; [4] knowledge of

different languages; [5] composing verses in them; [6] gambling; [7]

to [14] the four Vedas and the four auxiliary Vedas; [15] to [26]

the twice six auxiliary sciences; [27] Tantra; [28] PurAnA, [29]

Smrti [30] Poetry; [31] rhetoric; [32] drama; [33 -38] pacifying

controlling, attracting, enmity, ruining by magical practices, and

killing; [39-45] the art of opposing the effects of motion, water,

sight, fire, weapons, speech, and semen; [46-49] training elephants,

horses, chariots and men; [50-53] the knowledge of divination by

bodily marks [sAmudrika]; gymnastics, cooking and power over snakes

[GArudavidya]' [54] susira; [55] Anaddha; [56] ghana; [57] creating

illusion [indrajAla]; [58] dancing, [59] singing; [60] knowledge of

gems; [62] thieving; [63] knowledge of the pulse, and [64]

disappearance; thus laid down by the poet BhAskara the sixty-four

sciences after examining [them]"

 

or KalA, works, the sixty four of them are enumerated in the

VAmakesvara Tr.

 

BhAskararAya's commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry