Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c10.s4.12

c10.s4.12

This precise information about the colours in ancient Indian painting is supplemented by the wall-paintings of Ajaṇṭā, which have preserved numerous instances of colour harmonies to be discovered in the blending of the ivory white, the shade of autumn-al clouds, the sombre shade of the purple lotus and the silvery gray of the monkey.⁷⁶