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68 fluid floating above is collected and used as alta, which is crimson lake, colour. Muniji has given the recipe of preparing Lakshrasa in his book in detail.
Pothi: is a variety of indian lake obtained from the darkened berries of the poi creaper grown commonly in domestic house hold. Muni Punyajijayji has called it Pothi in his list of colours.
Kermis: is another insect dye stuff from which the Rajasthani painters have derived the name as Kirmiji which was in vogue in Maharashtra as mentioned in Marathi literature. Indians imported kermis under a different trade name called cochneil which did not survive for long as colouring meterial.
Kirimdana : is a common pigment known to Mughal and Rajasthani painters. It is also an insect dyestuff and obtained from insects which breed on cacti. Only the females yield colour known as Kirmiz or Gulali.
Al most all medieval texts on painting point out to Indigo being the chief blue colour of the painters in the middle ages. Nil, indigo and Nili are the three names which appear in literature frequently, Indigo colour is extracted from a certain plant known in botany as indigoferae. It grows near lakes and rivers and are abundantly found in Bikaner (?) It was primerily used as a dye stuff for cotton but later used as blue pigment for painting.
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