Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.108

v2.c76.108

Again as the universe of discource in relation to Iconography—the Sculpture, being a limited one in this Study, i. e. excluding from its purview the secular images and concentrating on only religious ones, this stand point however, would have to be modified here in this part, because the Samarāṅgaṇa Sūtradhāra does provide for secular norms of painting in its treatment on the subject. This is the unique feature of this work (see also Vol. I, Part III—House Architecture—the Secular Architecture) not to have lost sight of the secular trends in art, characteristic of the upsurge of the medieval tendencies in art and literature. This leads us to the twofold general scope of painting.