Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.144

v2.c76.144

‘Namely, varities of beauty, proportions, representation of sentimental grace, resemblence, colours and reliefs’—These Six-fold elements of painting as presented by Yaśodhara, in my opinion, are from the point of view of the objective treatment of the art as finished work i. e. from the spectators’ point of view; but from the artist’s point of view, Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra, presents in the following Eight-fold parts as an essential code of the paraphernelia of the pictorial art which may be taken as the constituents or the limbs of painting: