South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c8.72

c8.72

The proportions given in the verses are illustrated in the accompanying diagrams (figures 4 and 5) Some of the texts give the different plumb-lines which guide the sculptors in the construction of the images. Dr Coomaraswamy in his *Mediæval Sinhalese Art* has given the principal plumb-lines as used by the Sinhalese image-makers, with an illustrative diagram (vide *Mediæval Sinhalese Art*, p. 156 & fig. 95). Though his diagram of *Lamba Tatuwa* relates to Buddhist images it is practically the same as the *Pralamba Phalaka* of the South Indian manuscripts. The principal plumb-lines are as follows :—