History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v3.c37.24

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258–264; in the Agnipurāṇa chap. 44–53, the Viṣṇudharmottara (III. 44 ff.) and other purāṇas, in the Mānasāra, the Caturvarga-cintāmaṇi of Hemādri (Vratakhaṇḍa vol. II part 1, pp. 76–222), in several āgama works, in the Devatāmūrti-prakaraṇa of sūtradhāra Maṇḍana of the 15th century (ed. by Upendra Mohan Sāṅkhyatīrtha, Calcutta, 1936) and similar works elaborate rules are given on pratimālakṣaṇa (the characteristics of the images of gods and goddesses). They cannot be dealt with here. In modern times many works and papers, several of them illustrated with plates and photographs, have been published on this subject.¹⁷⁰¹