HINDU ART
its matter-of-fact sober grasp of the realities of flesh and blood?
It is really a specimen of Hindu positivism that Kalidasa, the Shakespeare of Hindu literature, has furnished in
this bit of discussion in pictorial art. We feel how profound humanists the Hindu audiences were in their outlook, how non-mystical in their views and criticisms in regard to chitra-lakshana (i. e., "marks" of a painting).
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