Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c77.248

v2.c77.248

All these styles, rather jātis, i.e. Citra-jātis, gave rise to innumerable other varieties and sub-varieties of patras, for example dina-patras are of fifteen varieties. Similarly other varieties are enumerated in the text, an enumeration of which may be seen in the quotations (Cit. Laks. p. 31-33). The styles-wise patras have already been hinted at, above. A special feature of the varieties of patras is that as they are related to have sprung up from the different parts of that Mahā Taru, the Sura-Taru, they fittingly corresponding to their geneological account like the ten-fold Śākhodbhava (rising from branches) patras and sixteen-fold kandaja (resulting from Kanda—the root). Other varieties are also similarly accounted for (see Cit-laks.)