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Vitruvius deals with painting and preparations of colours in the larger part of a book (VII) of fourteen chapters. This subject, as well as Vitruvius’s books (VIII—X) on Instruments, Machines and Engines, have no place in the *Mānasāra*. In place of these matters, some twenty chapters (LI—LXX) of the *Mānasāra* have been devoted to sculptural matters to which only the following brief and casual reference has been made by Vitruvius (Book III, chapter I):