Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c74.s2.25

v2.c74.s2.25

Rao, Gopinath, T. A. in his ‘Elements of Hindu Iconography’ however, gives a somewhat quite different classification of the Images. As his treatment is confined to the Hindu or Brahmanical images, it is more acceptable than any so far advanced, though it may be pointed out that in several works on Śilpa-śāstra, Brahmanical and Buddhist as well as Jain images have been treated side by side (cf. Mānasāra). Of the different bases—hitherto not taken into account—of the classification of Hindu images, Rao takes up the following ones:—