Art Notes on Design-drawing, Painting and Picture-galleries in the Tilakamanjari

PICTURE-GALLERIES IN 1HL TIL AKAMANJARI N M Kansara The first scholar to notice long bick soinu of the preferent to painting etcetara and some technical terms in Dhanapal's Tilakamañan was Shri C Shivaramamurti, whose pioneer researches pertaining this aspect of the Sanskrit prose romances of Bana and Dimmuaj zla have been serving to testify to

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कंसारा लगभग १०२५ ई. की धनपाल रचित तिलकमंजरी में आए कला-सम्बन्धी उल्लेख एकत्र करते हैं। अमरकोश, कामसूत्र और उनकी टीकाओं के सहारे वे पत्रांगुलि, तिलक, विशेषक तथा पत्रच्छेद की व्याख्या करते हैं और उस कथा में वर्णित आलेख्य, चित्रकर्म एवं चित्रशालाओं का परिचय देते हैं। Kansara collects the notices of art in the Tilakamanjari of Dhanapala, written about 1025. He explains patranguli, tilaka, visesaka and pattraccheda from the Amarakosa, the Kamasutra and their commentators, and describes the design-drawing, the paintings and the picture-galleries that the romance records.

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