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The Visnudharmottara has specially stressed 'suggestion' as an important element in art. Different methods, for suggesting various aspects of nature are enumerated. In some instances, atmospheric effects are described, while in others, behaviour of the objects or human beings are represented suggestively. The night should be shown with the moon, planets and stars, with approaching thieves and men fast asleep. In the first part of the night women are to be shown going out to meet their lovers. The break of the day is to be

路 278 shown by the rising sun, the dim lamps and crowing cocks, or man should be drawn as if ready for work. The evening is to be shown by portraying lotuses in bloom, Rsis hurrying for a batch. Overcast clouds and white cranes flying in the sky to signify the rainy season, pleasant flower-decked forests and gardens to recall the spring and the summer is suggested by portraying travellers oppressed by heat and greatly fatigued. A painter should paint the Autumn with trees heavy with fruits, the earth covered with ripe corn and with tanks beautified with lotuses and swans. The winter is suggested with the horizon shrouded in hoar-frost, with shivering men and delighted crows and elephants. Thus the season should be represented by trees in flowers and creatures delighted or otherwise. 65 As observed by Dr. C.Sivaramamurti, "all these devices are carefully followed in paintings and are to be understood in order fully to appreciate the meaning of a picture, specially in the later-day miniature paintings from Rajasthan, baramsa paintings and those portraying the loves of the Nayakas and the Nayikas, in scenes of tryst with Sukla or Krsna abhisarika, utkantha and Viraha, an overcast cloudy sky or the moonlit night when the pang of separation has its utmost poignancy which is all in the most suggestive language of the brush. 66