Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c77.252

v2.c77.252

It may be remarked here that whether patra-painting had any historically authentic basis from the standpoint of styles or not, it was remarkably a flourishing house-hold pictorial art among the cultured ladies of ancient India. Bāṇa, among the Sanskrit poets, has said enough about this patra-racanā or Patra-vicchiti, a common hobby and a pleasant occupation among the beautiful damsels of the time. A single illustration from Bāṇa’s writings (of. H. C. p. 143; Kā. p. 143)—