The Hindu Temple v1.c7.s2.10

v1.c7.s2.10

The ‘Śilparatna’, XIV, 58-75, describes different kinds of lime plaster, mainly from powdered, etc., gravel but also of powdered shell and with a proportion of sand to which the following liquids are added: the sap of various milky trees, Aśvattha, Butea Frondosa, Kadamba, Myrobalan and Mango-juice, or curd, milk, cocoanut water, ghee, as well as ripe bananas, pulse, rice gruel, etc., according to the different types or desired qualities of the plaster. Last of these varieties of plaster, Vajralepa is described. 100 parts are lime, 2 parts resin (karala), and small quantities of ghee, bananas, cocoanut-water, pulse, Aśvattha sap and jaggery. Re. Vajralepa, a buffalo hide glue, see Ch. on Painting, ib. XLVI. 131-2.