The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c14.s4.7

c14.s4.7

Śrīkumāra's *Śilparatna* is a systematic and comprehensive treatise of large size in Sanskrit verse dealing not only with the construction of houses, villages and other allied things but also with iconography and things connected therewith. The last chapter deals with painting. The author was an inhabitant of Kerala in South India and may have flourished in the sixteenth century, as suggested by Gaṇapati Śāstri, the editor of the text.¹⁰