sarvaḿ nara-vara-śreṣṭhau
sarva-vidyā-pravartakau
sakṛn nigada-mātreṇa
tau sañjagṛhatur nṛpa
aho-rātraiś catuḥ-ṣaṣṭyā
saḿyattau tāvatīḥ kalāḥ
guru-dakṣiṇayācāryaḿ
chandayām āsatur nṛpa
sarvam -- everything; nara-vara -- of first-class men; sreshthau -- the best; sarva -- of all; vidya -- branches of knowledge; pravartakau -- the initiators; sakrit -- once; nigada -- being related; matrena -- simply; tau -- They; sanjagrihatuh -- fully assimilated; nripa -- O King (Parikshit); ahah -- in days; ratraih -- and nights; catuh-shashtya -- sixty-four; samyattau -- fixed in concentration; tavatih -- that many; kalah -- arts; guru-dakshinaya -- with the traditional gift for the spiritual master before one leaves him; acaryam -- Their teacher; chandayam asatuh -- They satisfied; nripa -- O King.
The following list comprises the sixty-four subjects mastered by Lord Krishna and Lord Balarama in sixty-four days. Additional information may be found in Srila Prabhupada's Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
The Lords learned (1) gitam, singing; (2) vadyam, playing on musical instruments; (3) nrityam, dancing; (4) natyam, drama; (5) alekhyam, painting; (6) viseshaka-cchedyam, painting the face and body with colored unguents and cosmetics; (7) tandula-kusuma-bali-vikarah, preparing auspicious designs on the floor with rice and flowers; (8) pushpastaranam, making a bed of flowers; (9) dasana-vasananga-ragah, coloring one's teeth, clothes and limbs; (10) mani-bhumika-karma, inlaying a floor with jewels; (11) sayya-racanam, covering a bed; (12) udaka-vadyam, ringing waterpots; (13) udaka-ghatah, splashing with water; (14) citra-yogah, mixing colors; (15) malya-grathana-vikalpah, preparing wreaths; (16) sekharapida-yojanam, setting a helmet on the head; (17) nepathya-yogah, putting on apparel in a dressing room; (18) karna-patra-bhangah, decorating the earlobe; (19) sugandha-yuktih, applying aromatics; (20) bhushana-yojanam, decorating with jewelry; (21) aindrajalam, jugglery; (22) kaucumara-yogah, the art of disguise; (23) hasta-laghavam, sleight of hand; (24) citra-sakapupa-bhakshya-vikara-kriyah, preparing varieties of salad, bread, cake and other delicious food; (25) panaka-rasa-ragasava-yojanam, preparing palatable drinks and tinging draughts with red color; (26) suci-vaya-karma, needlework and weaving; (27) sutra-krida, making puppets dance by manipulating thin threads; (28) vina-damarukavadyani, playing on a lute and a small X-shaped drum; (29) prahelika, making and solving riddles; (29a) pratimala, capping verses, or reciting poems verse for verse as a trial of memory or skill; (30) durvacaka-yogah, uttering statements difficult for others to answer; (31) pustaka-vacanam, reciting books; and (32) natikakhyayika-darsanam, enacting short plays and writing anecdotes.
Krishna and Balarama also learned (33) kavya-samasya-puranam, solving enigmatic verses; (34) pattika-vetra-bana-vikalpah, making a bow from a strip of cloth and a stick; (35) tarku-karma, spinning with a spindle; (36) takshanam, carpentry; (37) vastu-vidya, architecture; (38) raupya-ratna-pariksha, testing silver and jewels; (39) dhatu-vadah, metallurgy; (40) mani-raga-jnanam, tinging jewels with various colors; (41) akara-jnanam, mineralogy; (42) vrikshayur-veda-yogah, herbal medicine; (43) mesha-kukkuta-lavaka-yuddha-vidhih, the art of training and engaging rams, cocks and quails in fighting; (44) suka-sarika-pralapanam, knowledge of how to train male and female parrots to speak and to answer the questions of human beings; (45) utsadanam, healing a person with ointments; (46) kesa-marjana-kausalam, hairdressing; (47) akshara-mushtika-kathanam, telling what is written in a book without seeing it, and telling what is hidden in another's fist; (48) mlecchita-kutarka-vikalpah, fabricating barbarous or foreign sophistry; (49) desa-bhasha-jnanam, knowledge of provincial dialects; (50) pushpa-sakatika-nirmiti-jnanam, knowledge of how to build toy carts with flowers; (51) yantra-matrika, composing magic squares, arrangements of numbers adding up to the same total in all directions; (52) dharana-matrika, the use of amulets; (53) samvacyam, conversation; (54) manasi-kavya-kriya, composing verses mentally; (55) kriya-vikalpah, designing a literary work or a medical remedy; (56) chalitaka-yogah, building shrines; (57) abhidhana-kosha-cchando-jnanam, lexicography and the knowledge of poetic meters; (58) vastra-gopanam, disguising one kind of cloth to look like another; (59) dyuta-visesham, knowledge of various forms of gambling; (so) akarsha-krida, playing dice; (61) balaka-kridanakam, playing with children's toys; (62) vainayiki vidya, enforcing discipline by mystic power; (63) vaijayiki vidya, gaining victory; and (64) vaitaliki vidya, awakening one's master with music at dawn.