Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c73.112

v2.c73.112

| | Patras | | | 438-40 |
| | Kaṇṭakas | | | 440-41 |
| | Styles | | | 441-42 |
| XI | Painting & Painter | | | 443-47 |
| | Characteristics of Indian painting with a critical and comparative estimation with the Western Canons | | | 442-45 |
| | Painter—his qualifications | | | 445 |
| | Painters of India | | | 446-47 |
| | (Here end the Canons, we now go to their representation in the monuments) | | | |
| XII | An outline History of Indian Painting | | | 448-92 |
| | Introductory | | | 448-50 |
| | *Section A.* Archaeological evidence of early records of Painting in India | | | 448-74 |
| A. | Pre-Christian (1) Prehistoric | | | 450-451 |
| | (2) Historic | | | 451 |
| B. | Post-Christian—Introduction to Buddhist, Hindu, and Mohammedan | | | 451-53 |
| | The Buddhist period—Ajanta, Sigiriya, & Bagh paintings | | | 453-66 |
| | Ajanta | | | |
| | (i) Situation 454 | Cave | IX | 456-57 |
| | (ii) Groups and Pds. 454-55 | " | X | 457 |
| | (iii) Themes 455 | " | XI | " |
| | Cave I " | " | XVI | " |
| | Cave II 455-56 | " | XVII | 457-59 |
| | Cave VI 456 | " | XXI | 459 |
| | Cave VII " | " | XXII | " |
| | (iv) Patronage | | | 459-60 |
| | (v) Materials & Technique | | | 460-62 |
| | Adherance to the Art Canons and a general estimation | | | 462-65 |
| | Sigiriya | | | 465 |
| | Bagh | | | 465-66 |
| | Hindu Period | | | 466-71 |
| | Introduction | | | 466-67 |
| | Rajput Paintings | | | 467-69 |
| | Character & Characteristics of Rajput Paintings | | | 469-71 |
| | Mughal Paintings | | | 471-73 |
| | Introductory | | | 471 |
| | Mughal Miniatures | | | 471-72 |
| | Portraiture under the Mughals | | | 472-73 |
| | Modern Schools | | | 473-74 |
| | *Section B.* Literary evidence of Early Indian Painting | | | 474-92 |
| | (i) Vedic literature | | | 475 |
| | (ii) Pali Buddhist Canonical literature | | | 475 |
| | (iii) Epics (iv) Purāṇas and (v) Silpaśāstras | | | 475-76 |
| | Kāvyas | | | 476-92 |
| | *Kālidasa* | | | 476-81 |
| | (i) Citra-śālas; (ii) Citrācāryas | | | 477 |
| | (iii) Portrait pictures (iv) Backgrounds | | | 477-78 |
| | (v) Process (vi) Materials (vii) Colours | | | 478-80 |
| | (viii) Bodily poses and postures of legs | | | 480-81 |
| | *Bāṇa-bhaṭṭa* | | | 481-87 |
| | Introductory | | | 481-82 |
| | Types of Pictures | | | 482-83 |
| | Backgrounds | | | 483 |
| | Materials | | | 483 |