Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c10.5

c10.5

According to the tradition embodied in the Sanskrit texts on painting, a picture was completed after the eight stages had been meticulously gone through. In the Samarāṅgaṇa Sūtradhāra², all these stages are enumerated, though the technical import of certain stages is difficult to understand, owing to the mutilation of the text. The following are the eight stages in painting, according to the Samarāṅgaṇa Sūtradhāra:—