Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c74.s2.81

v2.c74.s2.81

The second type, the Mātrāṅgula was most suited and it was adopted by the image-makers in fashioning out the divine images. This is arrived on the basis of ‘the length of the middle digit of the finger of either the sculptor or the architect or of the rich devotee who causes a temple to be built or an image to be set up’—Rao. There is yet another manner in which the Mātrāṅgula was reached, and it is referred to, by Dr. Bannerjea (p. 317), as laid down in the Śukranītisāra (IV. 4. 82). This is the fourth part of one's own fist.