Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c75.45
Vāstu-śāstra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c75.45
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Thirdly the subject of Hindu Iconography regarding the different icons and their iconology has been treated here as an integrated whole. It is why that all the three branches of Indian Iconography—Brāhmaṇa, Baudha and Jain—so far taken as independent evolutions—have been treated here from the broad cultural stand-point in which they are only the side-currents having their rise from a fountain head—the spirit of India.