Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c5.18

c5.18

Siddharāja Jayasiṃha (1094–1143 A. D.) and Kumārapāla (1143–1174 A. D.), the famous rulers of Gujarāt, were also great patrons of learning. It is said of Jayasiṃha that he employed three hundred scribes to copy out books on religious and secular matters for the Imperial Library.⁴ It is said that numerous copies of the Siddhahaima Vyākaraṇa were prepared by the order of the king and distributed among the scholars in different parts of India. Kumārapāla is said to have established 21 Jñāna Bhaṇḍārs, in every one of which he placed a copy of the Kalpasūtra written in golden ink.⁵