A STUDY OF INDIAN ART TECHNIQUES AND METHODS
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There is no systematic work dealing with the philosophy of Indian art. Our knowledge of it has to be culled from scattered texts. On this subject I may draw attention to a remarkable passage of Dhammasangani which was written probably in the 3rd century B.C. and its commentary by Buddhaghosha in the 5th century AD. It is said there that the mind is called chitta because it thinks and also because all moral and immoral actions and thoughts accumulate in it rapidly. For this reason chitta or mind is characterised as impure and pure, passionate or free. The desires, ready to transform themselves spontaneously into conscious will, remain hidden and buried, as it were, in the sub-conscious. As an example of it, one may take the art of pictorial or plastic representation. The painter at the time of painting has no other mental state than the formative spirit that translates itself The externally into the pictorial representation.
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Dr. Rekha Pancholi
Associate Professor, SMB Government PG College Nathdwara, Rajasthan
