Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c74.s8.10
Vāstu-śāstra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c74.s8.10
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Images are also dressed in different other materials such as cotton and silk, clothes and the skin of the tiger or deer. The Cotton and silk clothings are dyed in various colours. Rao remarks ‘The tiger’s skin is worn over the silk or the cotton clothing, while the deer skin is thrown over the body’. There is yet another manner of wearing the deer skin—it is in the Upavīta fashion as illustrated in Deogarha relief (cf. Nara and Nārāyaṇa.