The Purana Index v1.c3.s8.4

v1.c3.s8.4

References are made now and then to guilds and corporations discharging their functions satisfactorily according to conventions. There are also passages in some Purāṇas about the development of architecture and iconography. The origin of house-building is furnished by the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa and supplemented by the Matsya Purāṇa. Temples and temple-building as well as image-making are also dealt with. Installation of images on auspicious occasions covers portions of the Purāṇas, especially in the Matsya Purāṇa. These and other things are all found scattered in the pages of the Purāṇa literature. And a student of ancient India will be profited by critically studying them.