Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.131
Vāstu-śāstra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.131
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As regards the fist angle the above accounts may suffice. Regarding the second, it may be noted that nothing is conclusively known of the earliest texts on this Śāstra, but a clue of its hoary exposition is already there in the V. D. itself. It admits in several places that it is but repeating and compiling from older sources. These being lost to us, the Viṣṇudharmottaram represents the earliest exhaustive and authoritative account of the theory of painting.