[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Architecture and art](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art) › [South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1915) › c8.72 # South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c8.72 South Indian Bronzes: A Historical Survey of South Indian Sculpture with Iconographical Notes Based on Original Sources c8.72 - **Language:** English ### [c8.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1915.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 :— - [Previous: c8.71](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1915.c8.71) - [Next: c8.73](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1915.c8.73) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1915.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1915.c8.72](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.art.gangoly-1915.c8.72) · Pramāṇa