Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.153

c6.153

4. Mr. Nawab, as a compromise, designates the so-called Jain school as ‘*Gujarātī Jaināśrita Kalā*’ or ‘Gujarāt school of painting under the Jain patronage.’ To support his designation, he advances the following reasons :—(a) Gujarāt (in wider sense) was responsible for the execution and preservation of the illustrated manuscripts, and the artists were generally the natives of Gujarāt. (b) The word ‘Jain’ is added simply to show that the pictorial subject-matter of this school is Jain and that the patrons of the artists were also Jains.⁸