Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c78.s2.52

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It was held an ominous picture and Bāṇa echoed it when Prince Harṣa is hurrying to meet his father and he sees it as one of the various omens that perturbed his mind—vide H. C. (6). Kāmadevapaṭa was still another variety of pictures, a populer picture of the bed-room—vide Kā (7). Cupid’s picture had almost an exclusive privilege in the Vāsabhavana—vide H. C. (8). Palace walls had paintings of Cāmaragrāhiṇīs, H. C. (9). Chowries being an important insignia of royalty, Cāmaragrāhins were common in royal house-holds. Other pictures adorning the royal mansions were the portraits of princes (10) both defeated princes and renowned ones of other royal houses. ‘Another picture of the aristocratic household is the Cakravāka painted usually to amuse women in the harem,’ H. C. (11).