Home›Open Questions›Where was the Vishnudharmottara Purana, and with it the Chitrasutra, composed?Open QuestionsWhere was the Vishnudharmottara Purana, and with it the Chitrasutra, composed?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Where was the Vishnudharmottara Purana, and with it the Chitrasutra, composed?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/where-was-the-vishnudharmottara-purana-and-with-it-the-chitrasutra-composed.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Where was the Vishnudharmottara Purana, and with it the Chitrasutra, composed?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/where-was-the-vishnudharmottara-purana-and-with-it-the-chitrasutra-composedCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-where-was-the-vishnudharmottara-purana-a, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Where was the Vishnudharmottara Purana, and with it the Chitrasutra, composed?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/open-questions-index/where-was-the-vishnudharmottara-purana-and-with-it-the-chitrasutra-composed}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe date is commonly given as the fifth to seventh centuries and is not the difficulty. The region is: the Chitrasutra is the earliest surviving Indian treatise on painting, so where it was written bears directly on which surviving wall paintings its rules were written for or against, and the atlas records the region as not established rather than assigning one.What would resolve this A regional attribution argued from the text itself, from its language, its named places, its ritual assumptions or its relationship to a datable local recension, rather than inferred backward from whichever painting tradition a reader wishes to connect it to.OpenIndology, Sanskrit textual criticism, history of Indian artDivinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First EditionCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnChitrasutra of the Vishnudharmottara Purana, Other Writings Well-attested Source Divinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Editiontier 1SourcesDivinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Editiontier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year