Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c77.81

v2.c77.81

The topics on colours in the pictorial art as arranged in the Citra-lakṣaṇa (pp. 35-39) are: the primary colours—the Mūlaraṅgas or the Śuddhavarṇas; the secondary ones or compound colours—the mixtures of one another—the Antaritas or the Miśra-varṇas; the substances from which colours were made—the Raṅgadravyas—and the use of the gold in colouring as well as the technique in their shading and delineations. All these topics may be taken one by one.