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ART NOTES ON DESIGN DRAWING, PAINTING IND
PICTURE-GALLERIES IN THL TILIKAMAVARI
NM Kansara
The first scholar to notic long bick SIOLf the will rulunun to painting etcetira and some technical teris in Dhanapali's 7 tlakuamant was Shri Shivaramanuri, whose pioneer researches pertaling this aspect of the Sanskrit prose rom.dices of Bana and Dunaj ild have been serving to testify to the adva acenient of the concept of Art and Art Critcism that obtained in Ancient ladia, tht conservalions of princes and painters and other masters of the art being rightly cited as instructive edification
As to Bana and Dhanapala, we know that the period during which they flourished was characterised by a mudiliceot rujal patronage to sculptors, painters, poets and craftsmen and all such gifted sorts Instead of being a stray thing preserved in museums and kept aloof and dissociated from daily life, Art was an element throbbing in the very veins of, active and vigorously alive in, all walks of socio-cultural aspects of coatemporary Irfe The present paper is confined to all account of art notices as are found in Dhanapalas Tilakamafjarl (about 1025 AD), with special refereace to personal and domestic decorations design-drawings, paintings aod picturegalleries
I. Personal Decorations
Among the desigos utilized for personal decoratlon, Dhaoapala has mentioned Patrangull, Tilaka, Viteşaka and Pattraccheda Of these, Patr angult seems to bave consisted of various types of curved lines, or dots arranged in curved lines, forming leaf-motifs drawn on the surface of the breasts and the cheeks of women with a paste of fragrant substances such as Sandal, Saffron, Camphor, Musk, and etcetara 1 Pandit Radhakentadeva is not sure when he gives two alternative explanations However, Dhana
1 Cr TM (N), p 18 (23), 247 (11) All references to the page and line numbers
glven here are with reference to the Tilahamanjars, 2nd Edn, published by Nirnaya Sagar Press, Bombay, 1933, 1be readings however an accordmg to the Cntical 1 ext
determined by me on the basis of a number of original Mas 2 Śabdakalpdrum, Vol III, p 29, Col!
पत्रागुलि -पत्रम् अश्गुलिरिष यत्र । यद्वा भगुलिभिलिखित रचित पत्र पत्राकृतिरत्र । पत्रमा । स्तमकपोलादौ कस्तूरिकादिरचितपत्रावली इत्यमर ॥२।२।१२२॥
