Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c8.1
Indian Art: A History of Indian Art from the Earliest Times up to the Third Century A.D. c8.1
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c8.1
CRAFTS IN THE VEDAS—We learn from the Vedic literature about some arts and crafts executed in material media, although up to no now actual relics have been traced. There are references to Stūpa (as in Hiraṇya Stūpa), Yūpa or sacrificial post with a rope and a top-ring (Chashāla) which were fashioned by felling timber trees by expert carpenters known as Yūpa-vraska. The workmen possessed tools made of copper (Ayasī-vāsī) for cutting stately forest trees (Vanaspati) of a hundred or a thousand branches (Satavalśa, Sahasravalśa).