The Development of Hindu Iconography c9.28

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¹ Lakshman Sarup, *The Nighaṇṭu and The Nirukta*, English Translation and Notes, pp. 116-17. R. P. Chanda first noted the importance of this passage in his work, *The Beginnings of Art in Eastern India*, M.A.S.I., No. 30, pp. 1-2. Gopinath Rao, on the basis of this passage in the Nirukta, wrongly inferred that image worship seems to have become common in the time of Yāska; T. A. G. Rao, *Elements of Hindu Iconography*, Vol. I, Introduction, p. 5.