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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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42 (of 45)


External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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26 VDP. III. 42. 84.
जिति वित्तणबुध्दिविकल्पिते। करणकान्तिविलास रसादिभिः �
लिखितमोक्षणलोचनम� रामवति चित्रममीप्सितकामदम� �
[jiti vittaṇabudhdivikalpite| karaṇakāntivilāsa rasādibhi� |
likhitamokṣaṇalocanamā rāmavati citramamīpsitakāmadam |
]
VDP. III. 41. 10 - 12.
रेखा � वर्तना चै� भूषण� वर्णमे� � �
विद्वेमा मनुनश्रेष्� चित्रकर्� भूषणम् �
रेला प्रसन्त्याचार्� वर्तनी � विवाना� �
स्त्रियो भूषणमिच्छन्त� वर्णादयमितरे सा �
बिति मत्व� तथ� यत्न� कर्तव्यवित्रकर्मणि �
सर्वस्� चितग्रहण� यथ� स्यान्मनुन� �
[rekhā ca vartanā caiva bhūṣaṇa� varṇameva ca |
vidvemā manunaśreṣṭha citrakarma bhūṣaṇam ||
relā prasantyācārya vartanī va vivānā� |
striyo bhūṣaṇamicchanti varṇādayamitare sā ||
biti matvā tathā yatna� kartavyavitrakarmaṇi ||
sarvasya citagrahaṇa� yathā syānmanunā ||
]
Stella Kramrisch, op. cit., Intr. p. 20, f. n. 1 c.
111.
VDP. III. 41. 2-4.
D. N. Shukla, 'Hindu Canons of Painting or Citra
Laksana, Ch. III, pp. 29 - 33.
28 Stella Kramrisch, op. cit., Intr. p. 8.
29 VDP. III. 42 - 86.
30 यथादेय� यथाकाल� यथादेश� यथावयः �
क्रियमाण� भवेद� धन्य� विपरीतमताऽन्यथा �
[yathādeya� yathākāla� yathādeśa� yathāvaya� |
kriyamāṇa� bhaved dhanya� viparītamatā'nyathā ||
]
VDP. III. 40 . 15.
सुस्निग्धविस्पष्टसुवर्णरेखविद्वान्यथ� देशविशेषवेशम �
प्रमाणामामिरहीयमान� कृतं मवेव्वित्रमती� चित्रम� �
[susnigdhavispaṣṭasuvarṇarekhavidvānyathā deśaviśeṣaveśama |
pramāṇāmāmirahīyamāna� kṛta� mavevvitramatīva citram ||
]
31 VDP. III. 41. 7 - 10; VDP. III. 43. 18 - 20.
32 33
VDP. III. 43. 28.
तर नाधूमं वेदयन्त्यस्वरादिकम� �
वायुगत्य� लिखेदस्त� विज्ञेयो मत्तचित्रवत् �
[tara nādhūma� vedayantyasvarādikam |
vāyugatyā likhedastu vijñeyo mattacitravat ||
]
VDP. III. 41 . 12 - 13.

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