Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.33

v2.c76.33

The ninth chapter dealing with aestheticism in Indian pictorial art is unique in the respect that here an artist simply begins to work on poetry. The technique of the poetry of picture can only be prescribed by a great aesthetician and King Bhoja, the author of Samarāṅgaṇa, has got this distinction. A perusal of this theme will unfold the magic of this magnetism elevating the brutes playing in the company of the Sahṛdayas, the men in that of gods, and gods simply sharing our sorrows and joys. This is the marvel of the art unravelled in the pages of the Samarāṅgaṇa. Accordingly the exposition of the pictorical rasas and rasadṛṣṭis, along with the suggestive elements therein, are all worked out here.