Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c10.117

c10.117

From numerous other references to painted portraits in Sanskrit literature it would appear that the rule against portraiture in the Hindu *Sastras* either applied only to sculpture or was not very strictly observed. But probably the prohibition was meant to apply only to the precincts of sacred buildings and not to the *chitrasâlâs*, or picture galleries, attached to royal palaces or to the villas of the court noblemen.