South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c8.25

c8.25

All the existing manuscripts in the chapters on *Talu Prakarana* give the detailed measurements of the component parts of each of the three groups of the *nava-tāla* images. The different proportions comprised in the *Uttam Dasa tala* quoted below are taken from the Tanjore manuscripts *Tara Lakhanam* and are practically the same as given in the *Kāsyapiya*, chapter 63, where some of the passages are corrupt and unintelligible:--