Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c76.90

v2.c76.90

Thus it is evident that it deals with both painters and paintings as also with the methods of preparing vajralepa (adamantine paste), painting brushes, pure and mixed colours. In the Abhilaṣitārtha-cintāmaṇi (also cf. Mānasollāsa) very intersting details are given on pictorial painting, which is dependent, in the first place, on the three principal lines, called the plumb-lines and they are named here as Brahmasūtra and the two Pakṣasūtras, the side lines. Its Iconometry is very scientific and a detailed notice may be seen in a subsequent chapter.