Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c78.s2.18

v2.c78.s2.18

**Backgrounds.**—The slab of त्वामालिख्य (8) may stand well for a board where we have a rough sketch in mineral chalks—something like a pastel drawing—on a stone slab. Similarly Raghu. (9) gives us some idea of the fresco or wall-paintings of the day. "Portrait painting on board and canvas was very common and we have types of it in the pictures of Indumatī, Daśaratha, Śakuntalā, Mālavikā, Agnimitra, Irāvatī, Urvaśī, the drawings of dancing girls executed by Agnivarṇa's and the like. Patrālekhana, *i. e.* painting of creeper designs on the body of both man and beast generally the elephant in the latter case—is very often stated. In the lines....