Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.113

Vāstu-śāstra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.113

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v2.c76.113

The employment of painting purely from the point of view of religious merit was also of a hoary antiquity and it might be as old as image-worship and iconography themselves. A sacred text like Hayaśīrṣapañcarātra bears an ample testimony in its following quotation that the pictorial representation of divinities was as time-honoured as through any sculptural or any iconoplastic meduim :

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Hayaśīrṣasaṃhitā — Sanskrit