Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c6.25

c6.25

ROCK-PAINTINGS — The man using the stone axe tools used to live and wander in river valleys and open forests. In the next stage man learnt to live in rocky cave-shelters where he diverted himself by making drawings on the walls of the caves which are known as Rock Paintings. These paintings were done with a kind of soft red stone or haematite, and from this they are known to the local people as Rakat-Ki-putariyān (रकत की पुतरियाँ, Skt. Raktaputtalikā)