Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c74.20

v2.c74.20

We on our part will take ourselves to the main literary sources in which some of the medieval texts like the S. S. and the A. P. are more helpful, the iconographical contents of which have been studied by the writer, for the first time, in contemporary iconographical studies. Some passing remarks will also be made on the artistic traditions, the different centres of Indian art, the open books of Indian Iconography. But the latter theme is a very difficult subject. It has not been studied properly and hence it provides a vast field for student-researchers to take up the subject. Every temple-site, be it Bhuvanesvara, or Khajuraho in the North or Ramesvaram and Minaksi-Sundaresvaram in the South, is full of iconographical details. The sculpture worked out there and depicted on the temple-walls is itself a fascinating field of enquiry. All these need thorough examination and correlation to evolve out the different styles of Sculpture and Iconography as we have done in the field of Architecture.