Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.160

v2.c76.160

The Śilparatna on the other hand restricts its classification of the varieties of pictures only to three. First it takes the word Citra in the wider sense of the term i.e. image which is, as we have already seen is Citra (sarvāṅgadṛśya-karaṇa), Citrārdha i·e. half-relief and Citrābhāsa’, the painting and then gives the following three-fold classification of the pictures:—