South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c8.112

c8.112

The *sutra* (the plumb-line) indicating the deviations for each of these poses varies according to the form of different images, so that the rule for one is not applicable to others. Thus it has become difficult to verify a particular rule without referring to an actual example of the image for which it is prescribed. The available portions of the existing manuscripts do not contain the particular rules for the poses of many of the examples here illustrated.