Jain Miniature Paintings from Western India c6.210

c6.210

Besides these dated examples of Western Indian miniatures, there are others which do not bear any dates. The earliest example among these detached miniatures is a lovely drawing of the goddess Sarasvatī (Fig. 53) from the Siddha Haima in the collection of Sarabhai Nawab. It could be easily assigned to the first half of the 12th century. Then Sarabhai Nawab describes two miniatures from the Paryuṣaṇā Kalpa in the Śāntināth Bhaṇḍār, Cambay.¹⁷ One of these represents Jineśvara Sūri with an attendant, a disciple and a layman. Then there are four miniatures from the Uttarādhyayana¹⁸ and two miniatures from the Ṛṣabhadeva Charita in the Sanghavinā Pādānā Bhaṇḍār, Pāṭan,¹⁹ which do not bear dates, but on stylistic considerations may be dated to the 13th century.