Devta Murtiprakaranam tatha Rupmandanam

Author(s): Upendramohan Sankhyatirtha
Publisher: Metropolitan Printing and Publishing House Limited

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dubious-similar or same names occurring repeatedly. Of some names we are not sure if they are personal names or the titles of works.
The Tibetan text, dpag bsam ljon bzan33 of Lama Sum-pa mk'an-po ye-ses dpal-abyor (1702-1775), traces the origin of the art of painting to Nagnajit :-how he painted the figure of a dead Brahmin child and how the god, Brahman invested it with life. Later on the art of painting was propagated through Viśvakarman, and Rşi Atreya who discovered calligraphy. The latter is known from Tibetan sources, as the author of an iconographic work, which is preserved in translation, in the Tanjur.
Names of a few more authorities or masters are also known from (stray mentions in) other sources. Their works are existent mostly in Mss.
There is a Silpa-sastra ascribed to Kasyapa, the Kasyapiya, also called the Amsumad-bheda. It has been edited 36. Kasyapa is said to have learnt this science from Siva.
The Agastya Sakalādhikāra is ascribed to Agastya**.
"The work entitled Sacaladhicara, an excellent but rather voluminous performance, is attributed to Agastya, a sage whose history occupies a conspicuous place in the Puranas. Some few sections only of this work are to be now met with; and the portion which
33. Pag bsam ljon bzan. Ed., Saratchandra Das. Calcutta, 1908. p. 136ff.
31. Pratimanalakṣaṇa-nāma, classed under Tanjur. Section Mdo -hgrel (Sūtra-vṛtti), Silpa-vidya-sastras.
35. For Mss. of Kasyapiya, see Catalogue Vol. XXII. Oriental Mss. Library, Madras., pp. 8755 ff. Nos. 13032, 13033. Also, Oppert: List of Sanskrit Mss. in Private Libraries of South India, Vol. II, p. 395, No. 6336.
36. Kasyapiya, quoted by Varähamihira. Edited in Anandāsram Skt. Series, from Poona.
37. See P. K. Acharya: Indian Architecture according to Manasarasilpasāstra, p. 100. For Mss. of the work, see Orient. Mss. Libr., Cat. Vol. XXII, Nos. 13046, 13047, also 13058.