Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c78.s2.60

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paste served as the ground paint in such cases. Not content with painting themselves the women went to the extent of even decorating dolls with such drawings. Thus we have one of the maidens in the palace of Kādambarī exhorting one of her companions to paint the breasts of a doll. That even youths delighted in this, of decorating the body with paintings, is proved by the reference in Harṣacarita of young Dadhīca smelling sweet with creepers marked on his body with Kastūrī. The artistic figures of swans painted with Kastūrī on the border of the fine fabric covering the shoulders of King Śūdraka show the highly developed aesthetic taste of the time.—Śivarāmamūrti.