Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c78.s2.3

v2.c78.s2.3

**Vedic Litcrature.**—The earlist literary documents the Vedas also offer a clear clue to the conceptions of pictorial art in a good many hymns. In the Upaniṣads— "Let a man with firmness separate the spirit, the inner soul, from his own body, as from a painte’s brush a fibre"—this expression which is curiously technical one, may indicate that the early painters did not employ hair for the manufacture of their brushes but might have made them of fine vegetable fibre.