The Development of Hindu Iconography c19.s2.15

c19.s2.15

¹ The Venkatesvara Press edition of this text is full of errors, and these have been responsible for strange mistakes in the rendering of passages from its sections on Painting and Image-making by Kramrisch. Thus, *vyādhitāsya*, in verse 3 of Chapter 58 of Book III is translated by her as ‘having a diseased face’. But the word can be easily and correctly emended as *vyāditāsya* and translated into English as ‘having his mouth open’. Hemādri's extracts from this section of *Viṣṇudharmottara* as they appear in *Caturvargacintāmaṇi*, Vol. II, Part I (edited in the Bibl'otheca Indica series of the Asiatic Society) are also very corrupt. Rao's extracts about the description of Vāyu from the *Viṣṇudharmottara* contain also strange errors; thus, *kāṣṭhapūritacakrastu* (should be emended as *vāyyāpūritavastraśca*) in line 2 has no meaning. Again, there is no doubt that *gṛhītacakrāṅkaḥ* in line four of the extract is to be emended as *gṛhītavastrāntaḥ*.