In Banabhatta's Kadambri, good education has been described as having knowledge of 64 Kalaa or arts. Among these 64 Kalaa, which among the following subjects were included

In Banabhatta's Kadambri, good education has been described as having knowledge of 64 Kalaa or arts. Among these 64 Kalaa, which among the following subjects were included Correct Answer Arts, vocational courses, Engineering, Medicine, Mathematic, Science and Many other subjects.

The earliest attempt to define art has been found in some parts of the Brahmana literature which says that art is an activity of making something with a skill and rhythm.

Key Points

  • India has a long tradition of holistic and multidisciplinary learning, from universities such as Takshashila and Nalanda, to the extensive literatures of India combining subjects across fields.
  • Ancient Indian literary works such as Banabhatta’s Kadambari described a good education as knowledge of the 64 Kalaas or arts; and among these 64 ‘arts’ were not only subjects, such as singing and painting, but also ‘scientific ’fields, such as chemistry and mathematics, ‘vocational ’ fields such as carpentry and clothes-making, ‘professional ’fields, such as medicine and engineering, as well as ‘soft skills’ such as communication, discussion, and debate.
  • The very idea that all branches of creative human endeavor, including mathematics, science, vocational subjects, professional subjects, and soft skills should be considered ‘arts’, has distinctly Indian origins.
  • This notion of a ‘knowledge of many arts’ or what in modern times is often called the ‘liberal arts’ (i.e., a liberal notion of the arts) must be brought back to Indian education, as it is exactly the kind of education that will be required for the 21st century. 

 

Therefore In Banabhatta's Kadambri, a good education has been described as having knowledge of 64 Kalaa or arts. Among these 64 Kalaa, which among the following subjects were included Arts, vocational courses, Engineering, Medicine, Mathematics, Science, and Many other subjects.

 

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