The Development of Hindu Iconography c9.49

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¹ Ṣaḍviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, X. 5. Devāyatanam kampante daivapratimā hasanti rudanti nṛtyanti sphuṭanti svidyanti unmīlanti. Brindaban Chandra Bhattacharyya cites this as an evidence in support of his theory that image-worship was practised by the early Vedic Indo-Aryans; cf. Indian Images, Part I, p. xxix.