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<div id="LettertoMuralidharaMayapur7March1974_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Correspondence" book="Let" index="67" link="Letter to Muralidhara -- Mayapur 7 March, 1974" link_text="Letter to Muralidhara -- Mayapur 7 March, 1974">
<div class="heading">There is nothing peculiar looking about Yaksas and Raksasas; they are meat eaters. Just as meat eaters in the ordinary world do not look different. You may show them eating meat, or something like that.
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Muralidhara -- Mayapur 7 March, 1974|Letter to Muralidhara -- Mayapur 7 March, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Dear Muralidhara,</p>
<p>Please accept my blessings. I have received your letter sent to Mayapur with a list of questions regarding your painting pictures for my books. The answers are as follows.</p>
<p>1. Kardama Muni should look something like you have pictured Vyasadeva, with beard and top know of hair, not as you have pictured him in your drawing. Generally munis have beards.</p>
<p>2. a) The kinnaras and kimpurasas should look like demigods.</p>
<p> b) Ghosts and hobgoblins look all rights as you have them pictured.</p>
<p> c) There is nothing peculiar looking about Yaksas and Raksasas; they are meat eaters. Just as meat eaters in the ordinary world do not look different. You may show them eating meat, or something like that.</p>
<p> d) The Manus should look like kings, they should not have beards, but mustaches.</p>
<p>3. As far as wearing beards one class of men like Advaita Prabhu never wore clean shaven appearance but always had a beard. The other process is to be nicely clean shaven, by the barber. King PratapaRudra was a king so he should not wear a beard but mustaches.</p>
<p>4. Svarupa Damodara should look like a brahmacari. He should not have a beard.</p>
<p>5. In Panca-tattva everyone has an effulgence, but especially Lord Caitanya and Lord Nityananda</p>
<p>6. The Mayavadi sannyasis generally wear their dhotis up over their knees, and because Lord Caitanya took sannyasa from a Mayavadi sannyasi He is shown like that. So He is seen like this as a sannyasi.</p>
<p>7. Lord Nityananda never took sannyasa. He was independent, like a brahmacari, and later he became married.</p>
<p>8. You may depict both the sages and Yaksas on the ground in the battle with Dhruva.</p>
<p>9. Yes, show Dhruva's soldiers along with him.</p>
<p>10. Ghosts sometimes manifest a body and sometimes they do not. When they took a body it was golden.</p>
<p>11. Dhruva was a Vaisnava, portray him like that. There is not harm that he have a mustache, also helmet, ornaments, and pearl necklace.</p>
<p>12. Svayambhuva Manu is a king, portray him with mustaches.</p>
<p>Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya is clean shaven.</p>
<p>13. The picture you have enclosed of Siva Linga is approved by me and it is in the right proportion. It may be black or white according to the stone.</p>
<p>Feel free to write me if there are further questions so that our paintings are completely bona fide by the parampara.</p>
<p>Your ever well-wisher,</p>
<p>A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami</p>
<p>ACBS/sdg</p>
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