Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c77.65

v2.c77.65

Plasters and ointments, really should have been taken up, with the backgrounds (cf. chapter III ‘Vartikā and Backgrounds’) as it is for their preparation that plasters and ointments were used in ancient India, but the reason, why they are separately taken here in this chapter, is the fact of giving an individual entity or character and importance to them as they form an essential constituent being one of the eight-fold limbs of Painting, i.e. 3rd one—it should be read ‘lepya’ and not ‘lekhya’ as 'lekhana' is the 7th limb of painting—vide the S. S. 71.15. (cf. also the 3rd chapter 'Elements, Constituents and Types of Painting)'.