Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c10.s3.9

c10.s3.9

Symbolism in Indian art also solved many difficult problems of landscape painting. There the rivers may be represented in the form of a woman standing on her appropriate vehicle, carrying a pitcher in her hands and her knees bending; there is the impression of a peak on the forehead of the human personification of a mountain; the sea in human form carries a pitcher and the water replaces the halo; the tank is represented by a pitcher.⁶²