Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c78.s2.10

v2.c78.s2.10

**KALIDASA.**—Let us begin with Kālidāsa, the sweetest bard of India's mellifluous tongue, a typical cultured citizen, Nāgarika (as Vātsyāyana would have him) and an expert in the three well known arts—dancing, painting and music—as evident from his three dramas (where equal prominence is given to each of them). 'The Mālavikāgnimitra opens us a leaf of the chapter on Dancing. Painting is given sufficient importance in the Śākuntalam. The music of today is preserved for us in the Vikramorvaśīyam'. As the universe of our discourse being delimited to the Fine Art of Painting, let us, therefore, see what Kālidāsa says on Painting.