[INDOLOGY] Fw: painting on canvas?

[Dipak Bhattacharya]

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DB
 
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I remember a few more instances See sakuntala 6th act for her picture on a board. But this will not do. You cannot depend on others and have yourself to rummage particularly thru popular literature, also kautilya for writing on a canvas which i cannot quote at present. Kosambi (Introd. Ind Hist) deals at length with that.  Perhaps the Panchatantra and the Jaatakas will help.
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Thanks for all the replies. Dipak’s mention of the Mudrārākṣasa is dated at the
4th century CE at the earliest. The word for cloth he mentions is the
same one I was interested in: paṭa.
 
Joseph pushes it a bit farther back to the first or second century CE,
although that’s still a bit later than what I was hoping for.

It may be I'll have to translate it only as 'cloth' and not 'canvas'.

 
Best,
 
Dean 


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