Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c74.s2.54
Vāstu-śāstra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c74.s2.54
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**Icono-planning.**—The word icono-planning is a new coinage in the contemporay studies on Hindu Iconography. According to Hindu view of life, every creation is a pre-planned act. Even the Creation of the Universe is first Mānasī Sṛṣṭi. Therefore an image-maker, a mortal, however, adacious he is, while creating an image of the immortal (cf. ‘Amarāh nirjarāh devāh’) must undergo a descipline of mind and body both. The ancient studios were neither a factory nor a shop. They were either temple-sites themselves or a sacred secluded corner—a family chapel as it were—in the house itself.