blue-lotus dark and cloud-dark

'...Now I shall speak to you about the division of dark and white... of different colours in this world, from which the two-fold colour of all is explained (ie. the light and dark shade of every colour).

Among these colours, the white (light shade) should be of five kinds and dark of twelve kinds. Bright (gold), light (white), tooth white, pure sandal-white, autumn-cloud-white and autumn-moon-white - these five traditionally are called the fivefold white (light shade).

The varieties of dark should be: reddish-dark, brownish-dark, sprout (greenish) dark and grayish dark, tawny dark and topaz dark, creeper-dark and monkey dark. Then come blue-lotus dark and blue as the nilakantha bird, and purple-lotus dark and cloud-dark.'


Vishundharmottara Purana, Part 111, ch 27

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