Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c77.82

v2.c77.82

**Primary colours.**—According to the V.D. as already referred before, there are only five primary colours and Ab.C. however mentions only four. Indian texts on painting generally give only four colours as primary ones exceeding the Western list by the addition of white. It may however be pointed out here that blue and black are different. Black is well known. What is the nature of blue? Ab. C. gives it: ‘केवलैव च या नीली भवेदिन्दीवरप्रभा’