South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c6.26

c6.26

But the portion of his work generally known as *Anghsumān Veda Kalpa* is more widely known and followed and deals exclusively with sculpture. At any rate, of all the existing manuscripts the *Kāsyapiya* deals very exhaustively with image-making and affords the most invaluable guide to the study of South Indian sculpture. The manuscript which has been utilised in the present work is from the Government Oriental Library, Madras, and is practically the same as *Angshumān Veda Kalpa* in the collection of the Tanjore-Palace Estate Library. Both the Madras and Tanjore manuscripts are incomplete. It does not appear to be a recension of the same manuscript referred to by Ram Raja in his *Essay*.