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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- 282 . 16 17 C. Sivaramamurti, op. cit., p. 1.
According to Silparatna, chapter 46, 'Citra' is tha
sculpture in the round, relief and painting.
T.A.G. Rao, "Elements of Hindu Iconography", Vol. I,
Part I.
18 VDP. III. 2. 3 - 5.
मार्कंडे� मुदा�
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का तु नृत्यशास्त्रेण चित्रसूत्र� सुदुर्विदम� �
जगतो � क्रिया कार्या द्वयोरपि यत� नृ� [mārkaṃḍeya mudāṇa
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kā tu nṛtyaśāstreṇa citrasūtra� sudurvidam |
jagato na kriyā kāryā dvayorapi yato nṛpa ] "
का युवा�
नृत्यशास्त्र� समाचत्� चित्रसूत्र� वदिष्यसि �
नृत्यशास्त्र विधानं � चित्रं वेति यत� द्वि�
मार्कंडे� बुवा�
आताच� यो � जानाति तस्य नृतं हि दुर्विदम� �
आताचेन विना नृतं विद्यत� � कथञ्चन �
[kā yuvāca
nṛtyaśāstra� samācatva citrasūtra� vadiṣyasi |
nṛtyaśāstra vidhāna� va citra� veti yato dvina
mārkaṃḍeya buvāca
ātāca� yo na jānāti tasya nṛta� hi durvidam |
ātācena vinā nṛta� vidyate na kathañcana ||
] 19 VDP. III. 43.31 - 32.
20 VDP. III. 35.
21 22
यथ� नृते तथ� चित्रे त्रैलोक्यानुकृति� स्मृता �
दृष्टयम्� तथ� मावा अपाङ्गान� सर्वशः �
कराय� महानृत� पूर्वत� नृपसत्तम �
� जे� चित्रे विज्ञेया नृतं चित्रं पर� मतम् �
[yathā nṛte tathā citre trailokyānukṛti� smṛtā |
dṛṣṭayamca tathā māvā apāṅgāni sarvaśa� ||
karāye mahānṛte pūrvatā nṛpasattama |
ta jeva citre vijñeyā nṛta� citra� para� matam ||
] Stella Kramrisch, op. cit., Intr. p. 10.
VDP. III. 42. 81.
रखमावा � कर्तव्या यथापूर्वमुदाहृता� �
यथायोग� तु युञ्जी� नृताभिहितमत्� � �
[rakhamāvā va kartavyā yathāpūrvamudāhṛtā� |
yathāyoga� tu yuñjīta nṛtābhihitamatra ca |
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