Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c78.s2.4

v2.c78.s2.4

Similar references may be found abounding in so many other scriptural texts. In the Chāndogya (VI. 4) “Red, white and dark neither designate nor describe, brilliance, wateriness and solidity. They are one with these qualities. They are spoken of as ‘Rūpa’ intrinsic form. This intrinsic quality invests with substance the colours in paintings.”