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[ The Seventy two Kalas
keep your honour unsullied in life. Thus, you are great because they are small; you are rich and happy because they are poor and unhappy; you are learned because they are ignorant; and your food is rich because their's is coarse; what more, they are those on account of whom you are you.
We believe that the above description of human society with its divisions and wants will not displease the reader or seem irrelevant to him. Now, we again come to Rishabha Devaji and tell what kinds of arts and crafts useful both for men and women were founded out by him.
We will give below a short discription of 72 Arts:--
The undermentioned 72 Kalas (Arts) were originated and taught to man at the cost of the state for the first time in the reign of the king Rishabha Devaji; some of these arts have survived and flourished while others have died; and some have undergone changes and alteration. It would be worthwhile to describe them here in our modern terms. They ars as follows: (1) “LEHAM” OR THE ART OF WRITING:-By means of
this art, one could convey his ideas to other without speaking a single word from his mouth. It is this art which enables a man to see the past in the present, and
the present in the future quite distinctly. (2) “GANIYAM” OR THE ART OF COUNTING:- This art
is helpful in giving acurate knowledge of the number quantity and measurement of things. Even today people
take the help of this art in mathematics and accountancy. (3) "RUVAM” OR THE ART OF PORTRAYING: The
knowledge of this art enables one to represent things in real form on wall, stone, gold, precious stones and paper etc.
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