Essay name: Arts in the Puranas (study)
Author:
Meena Devadatta Jeste
Affiliation: Savitribai Phule Pune University / Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute Pune
This essay studies the Arts in the Puranas by reconstructing the theory of six major fine arts—Music, Dance, Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and Literature—from the Major and Minor Puranas. This thesis shows how ancient sages studied these arts within the context of cultural traditions of ancient India.
Chapter 5 - Painting in the Puranas
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NOTES . 281 - 1 VDP - III . 43. 38 - 39. 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 कलानां प्रवरं चित्रं धर्मकामार्थमातदम� �
मांगत्यं प्रथमं चैतद� गृहे यत्र प्रतिठितम् �
यथ� सुमेरु� प्रवरो नगानां यथाण्डवाना� गरुड� प्रधान
यथ� नराणां प्रवरः सितीशस्तथा कठानामिह चित्रकल्पः �
[kalānā� pravara� citra� dharmakāmārthamātadam |
māṃgatya� prathama� caitad gṛhe yatra pratiṭhitam ||
yathā sumeru� pravaro nagānā� yathāṇḍavānā� garuḍa� pradhāna
yathā narāṇāṃ pravara� sitīśastathā kaṭhānāmiha citrakalpa� |
] KS. I. 4. 4.
Stella Kramrisch, 'Vismudharmottara III', Intr. p. 6.
VDP. I 126. 1, 19
.
Bhasa, Svapnavāsavadatta', Act VI.
Bhavabhuti, 'Uttararamacarita', Act I. 33.
For the literary references see C. Sivaramamurti,
'Indian Painting', pp. 9 - 18.
Stella Kramrisch, op. cit., Intr. p. 6.
V.S.Agrawala, 'Indian Art', p. 10.
10 C. Sivaramamurti, op. cit., p. 22.
11 Percy Brown, 'Indian Painting', p. 18.
12 13
Priyabala Shah, 'Visnudharmottara III', Vol. II, p. 177.
Edith Tomory, 'Introduction to the History of Fine Arts
In India and the West', p. 50.
14 Stella Kramrisch, op. cit., Intr. p. 5.
15 VDP. III. 35. 4.
देवं महामुनिः कृत्वा चित्रं लक्षणसंयुतम् �
ग्राहयामास � तद� विश्वकर्माणमच्युतम� �
[deva� mahāmuni� kṛtvā citra� lakṣaṇasaṃyutam |
grāhayāmāsa sa tadā viśvakarmāṇamacyutam ||
]
