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Art Notes on Design-Drawing etc in Tilahamanjari
Bhagavata, seems to differenciate Pattracchedya from Visesakacchedya which he explains as the art of tattooing or makrog of spots, lines or figures on the person by puncturing and staining " The term 'Pattraccheda' might be aynonymous with 'Pattrabhanga', whicb, accordiog to Shri Atrldeva Vidyelankara, 11 refers to a practice in which leaves of some trees were cut in Artistic desigos and were fixed on to the forebead to serve as a Tilaka
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Elephants for royal procession were also decorated by painting their bodies Thus, prince Samaraketu's rojal clephant named Amaravallabha was besmeared all over the body with a paste of white powder, 18 and its broad temples and head were paiated red with vermilion 14 Similarly, the principal royal war elephant (pradhana jaya harin) of the Vidyadbara emperor Harivahana was painted white with saodal paste sbining with tinges of powdered Camphor particles16 agd its teniples and head were painted red wilb powdered red chalk (gairika) 16
11 Desigo Drawing Or Raggāvalt and Other Interior Decorations
The floors of the courtyards of thatched buts in the hermitages were plastered possibly with cow-dung, and artistic floral and Svastika designs were drawn on them 17 Besides these leaf-design (patralekha) and Svastika Dhanapala has also mentioned the Rangavalı, 18 wbich Shri C Sivarama murti seems to understand in the sense of colour creeper' 10 It should rather mean 'a pattern of colours' This type of design-drawing is prevalent even to this date almost all over India under various Dames, such as 'Rangoli' in Gujarat, Maharashtra and possibly in Rajasthan, as Alphona
11 Opal, p 33 12 Prachina Bharat-ke Prasādhana p 61 13 TM (N), P 115 (19)
सितपिष्टपक्कपाण्डरितगात्रम् । 14 TM (N), p 115 (20)
सिन्दूरपाठलविकट कुम्भभागम् । 18 Op cit, p 425 (214)
दलितकपूरकणचूर्णरोचिषा चन्दनबवेण पाण्डरितगात्रम् । 16 Op cit p 931 (5) ___ मचिरोपलिप्तासु पर्णशालागणवितर्दिकासु दर्शिताने कललितपत्रलेखान् स्वस्तिकाममि
foreren 1 17 Art Notes from Dhanapala & Tilakamanjars, in Indian Culture, Vol II, No 2 Oct
1935, p 210 (ANFDTM) 18 TM (N) p 76 (11)
रज्ञावलीयोग्यरत्मानयनाय । 19 ANFDTM, P 202
| SR No. | 520751 |
| Book Title | Sambodhi 1972 Vol 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Dalsukh Malvania, H C Bhayani |
| Publisher | L D Indology Ahmedabad |
| Publication Year | 1972 |
| Total Pages | 416 |
| Language | English, Sanskrit, Prakrit, Gujarati |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Sambodhi, & India |
| File Size | 11 MB |