Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.23

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With this general introduction to this work, let us say a few words on the different topics dealt with in the different chapters ahead. Here at the very outset it may be pointed out that this work may be viewed from two broad angles, the canons (the subject matter of the first eleven chapters) and the monuments, the representations thereof, the theme of the last chapter ‘An outline history of Indian Painting’) the latter including the exuberance of the pictorial references in the Kāvya literature which according to the dictum, ‘Literature is the mirror of society’, represents the popular cultivation of this fine art in public and palaces alike.