Vastu-shastra (Vol. I: Hindu Science of Architecture; Vol. II: Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting) v2.c78.s2.91

v2.c78.s2.91

**Anatomy.**—‘Of the so many factors that constitute a picture the one thing that is dealt with at great lenth by Srīharṣa is anatomy and that too feminine, i. e. of the woman. It is the description of Damayantī's beauty that lends itself as a proper medium for the artist poet's detailed delineation of anatomical rules. There is nothing of the brawn and the bone in it. The graceful portrayal in verse of the delicate curvatures and subtle beauty spots that make up the lovely form of the princess is all that we get from the pen of Srīharṣa. This in fact is the true and correct anatomy of the Indian artists"—Sivaramamurti.