Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.185

v2.c76.185

which corresponds to what the S. S. has described as will follow. The Abhilaṣitārtha-cintāmaṇi (cf. Cit. Laks. p. 30) as already hinted at, in the above paragraph, takes this opportunity to distinguish between three types of paint-brushes which are required to be used one after another. The first is Tūlikā, the colour pen for line-work and the second goes by name of Tindu. Both these are to be made of a strong and hollowless bamboo of the thickness of the little finger with two nodes with the modification that for the Tindu, you have to place at its tip a small copper pin with a grain's length of it protruding. The third is Lekhanī for applying colours.