Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c74.5
Vāstu-śāstra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c74.5
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In the third chapter, we shall discuss those Canons of Iconography which are particularly related to Icono-planning and Iconometry. Iconometry, the Canons of Measurement and the different standards thereof, was a very rigid institution in India. No deviation from the prescribed formulae was allowed. The Pramāṇa was the life-breath in the iconoplastic art and we shall discuss it at length. The S. S. has only echoed the time-honoured tradition of the rigidity or non-flexibility of the prescribed Canons of Pramāṇa when it says :