In this original five-and-a-half minute song, Mahatma dasa combines his experience as a recording artist with his appreciation of the unique qualities of Srimati Radharani that qualify Her as the greatest devotee of Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
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Excerpted from Brahma-samhita
Singing
Playing on musical instruments
Dancing
Theatricals
Painting
Painting the face and body with colored unguents and cosmetics
Preparing offerings from rice and flowers
Making a covering of flowers for a bed
Applying preparations for cleansing the teeth, cloths, and painting the body
Making the groundwork of jewels
Covering the bed
Playing on music in water
Splashing with water
Practically applying an admixture of colors
Designing a preparation of wreaths
Practically setting the coronet on the head
Practically dressing in the tiring room
Decorating the tragus of the ear
Practical application of aromatics
Applying or setting ornaments
Jugglery
Kaucumara – a kind of art
Art of sleight of hand
Preparing varieties of salad, bread, cake and delicious food
Practically preparing palatable drinks and tinging draughts with red color
Needleworks and weaving
Playing with thread
Playing on lute and small x-shaped drum
Making and solving riddles
Caping or reciting verse for verse as a trial for memory or skill
Practicing language difficult to be answered by others
Reciting books
Enacting short plays and anecdotes
Solving enigmatic verses
Designing preparation of shield, cane and arrows
Spinning by spindle
Carpentry
Engineering
Testing silver and jewels
Metallurgy
Mineralogy
Practicing medicine or medical treatment, by herbs
Knowing the mode of fighting of lambs, cocks, and birds
Maintaining or knowing conversation between male and female cockatoos
Healing or cleaning a person with perfumes
Combing hair
Talking with letters and fingers
Fabricating barbarous or foreign sophistry
Knowing provincial dialects
Knowing prediction by heavenly voice or knowing preparation of toy carts by flowers
Mechanics
The use of amulets
Art of conversation
Composing verse mentally
Designing a literary work or a medical remedy
Practicing as a builder of shrines called after him
The use of lexicography and meters
The art of concealment of cloths
Knowing specific gambling
Playing with dice or magnet
Using children’s toys
Enforcing discipline
The art of gaining victory
The art of awakening with music at dawn
Thank you very much for the article.
One of the arts mentioned, “Knowing prediction by heavenly voice” is called ‘Nimitta-Jnana’. A devotee has published a book on this subject. A very interesting book indeed! It is available at:www.cteindia.weebly.com/publications.html.
I am interested to know can other arts be researched? Did Srila Prabhupada want that we research these arts and teach them in Gurukulas? Thank you, Hare Krishna.