Samarangana-sutradhara (Summary)
by D. N. Shukla | 1960 | 15,592 words | ISBN-10: 8121506115 | ISBN-13: 9788121506113
This page describes Painting essentials (Citra-uddesha) which is chapter 79 English summary of the Samarangana-Sutradhara by Bhoja. This work in Sanskrit representing a voluminous treatise on Vastu-Shastra (the science of Architecture), encompassing a broad range of subjects, such as Architecture, Shilpa-shastra (Iconography, Arts and Crafts) but also deals with Creation-theory, Geography, Philosophu, etc.
Chapter 79 - Painting essentials (Citra-uddeśa)
[Note: This chapter corresponds to the chapter 71 of the original Samarāṅgaṇa-Sūtradhāra]
This initial chapter on Painting opens with a fine eulogy to the pictorial art—the Citra as the mouth of all the arts and having a popular appeal. It then describes thc three types of painting in relation to three types of background, Paṭa, Paṭṭa and Kuḍya. It then indicates the accessories like Vartikās, Plasters, colours and the Vartanā as well as measurements etc. etc. Then follows a detailed enumeration of the scope of the painting in relation to the divine, the mortals, animals and other beings. In the end are given eight essential constituents of the painting like Vartikā, Bhūmibandhan, Lekhya, Rekhā, Vartanā, colouring, etc. etc.