Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c77.271

v2.c77.271

emphasises not only all the basic qualities of the painter but also the basic requisites of the pictorial art as well; and it says—“Only those painters can execute painting full of rasas and rasadṛṣṭis, the sentiments and emotions to satisfy the royal pleasure, (and the royal pleasure in the present context must be superlatively high as the king has boasted himself to be Virañci of Citravidyā) who are fully initiated in the visualization of the theme and experts at the line, adept in the execution skilled at designs of patras, dexterious at colours and masters of delineations of light and shade.”