Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.138

v2.c76.138

Now in the end may be hinted at, a very important allied topic of this scope which is the non-scope Citrāviṣayas’ (cit.laks.p.9) and the Śilparatna is emphatic that only those things are worthy of painting which are auspicious and enjoined by the tradition—the scriptures. Subjects of painting are those full of beautiful and auspices stories and arousing in us pleasing aesthetic experience; and enkindling our sensibility. The scenes like the battlefield, the death, the naked plays of the tapsvīs, etc., etc. are not worthy of paints.