<P> Around the 1st century BC the Shadanga or Six Limbs of Indian Painting , were evolved , a series of canons laying down the main principles of the art . Vatsyayana , who lived during the third century A.D. , enumerates these in his Kamasutra having extracted them from still more ancient works . </P>
name the ancient text which has discussed the six canons of indian art
Shadanga or Six Limbs of Indian Painting